Let the living live; and you, gather together your thoughts, leave behind you a legacy of feeling and ideas; you will be most useful so.

Tell me what you feel in your room when the full moon is shining in upon you and your lamp is dying out, and I will tell you how old you are, and I shall know if you are happy.

There is no respect for others without humility in one's self.

Learn to... be what you are, and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not.

Women wish to be loved without a why or a wherefore; not because they are pretty, or good, or well-bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves.

Destiny has two ways of crushing us - by refusing our wishes and by fulfilling them.

In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past

In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past - a pious guardian of some affection, of which the object has disappeared.

Analysis kills spontaneity. The grain once ground into flour springs and germinates no more.

Truth is not only violated by falsehood; it may be equally outraged by silence.

You desire to know the art of living, my friend? It is contained in one phrase: make use of suffering.

When you try to build Heaven on earth you end up building ghetto's of Hell

Mr. Right' is usually two or eight men.

The house was safe again, although a little bit more untidy, but at least Vluffy didn’t have to worry about big nasty two headed roaches chasing him down the hall anymore.

Your lifestyle - how you live, eat, emote, and think - determines your health. To prevent disease, you may have to change how you live.

The male orientation of classical Athens was inseparable from its genius. Athens became great not despite but because of its misogyny.

The scariest part of forever is that nothing is.

I'm not good at just sitting around waiting for the phone to ring, hoping that the perfect role is going to turn up.

Part of the work of writing a novel is to uncover the symmetries or connections that make it whole, which might not reveal itself at first.

My first film crush was Mark Lester as Oliver Twist in the Carol Reed film.

There are no short hitters on the tour anymore - just long and unbelievably long.