Let us resist the opinion of the world fearlessly, provided only that our self-respect grows in proportion to our indifference.

The world has no sympathy with any but positive griefs. It will pity you for what you lose; never for what you lack

Travel is the frivolous part of serious lives, and the serious part of frivolous ones.

We reform others unconsciously when we walk uprightly.

There is a transcendent power in example.

To love deeply in one direction makes us more loving in all others.

Silence is like nightfall. Objects are lost in it insensibly.

The chains which cramp us most are those which weigh on us least.

The mind wears the colors of the soul, as a valet those of his master.

In youth we feel richer for every new illusion; in maturer years, for every one we lose.

Strength alone knows conflict, weakness is born vanquished.

God promised to bless the works of our hands. If you do not work, what is God going to bless you for?

You simply cannot know the depth of your magnificence without the contrast of life.

What was it about this man that one minute had me wanting to throw myself at him, climb him like a cat to rub up against and the next, wanting to scratch his eyes out while I was up there?

There's a wall between you and what you want and you got to leap it.

I try to make sure that the Buddhism is more or less implicit in the music rather than explicit

Our village life would stagnate if it were not for the unexplored forests and meadows which surround it.

You have to totally change the way that society's structured in order to being to heal.

I don't really worry so much about image. I try to just live my own life, my personal life, to my own sense of morality. In terms of the kinds of characters that I play, well, they could be anything.

Christ was born of a woman without the man.

More fools know Jack Fool than Jack Fool knows.