Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit

They say: 'If a man knew himself, he would know all mankind.'I say: 'If a man loved mankind, he would know something of himself.

Darkness may hide the treesand the flowers from the eyesbut it cannot hidelove from the soul.

True beauty is a rayThat springs from the sacred depths of the soul, and illuminates the body, just as lifesprings from the kernel of a stone andgives colour and scent to a flower.

Neither compares nor competes.

Do you know why you’re here? Shall I tell you why we brought you here? To cure you.To make you sane.

Not less strong than the will to truth must be the will to sincerity. Only an age, which can show the courage of sincerity, can possess truth, which works as a spiritual force within it.

Most writers or performers walk around with the notion in their head that - a paranoid worry that maybe people don't like them.

If a man smiles all the time, he’s probably selling something that doesn’t work.

he was watching me and when our eyes met, i had no fan to cover my face, no way to hid my feelings. i was desperate for him, and he could see it, all the way in me.

The key to finding your remarkability is to think about what makes you surprising, interesting, or novel.

Of course I lie to people. But I lie altruistically - for our mutual good. The lie is the basic building block of good manners. That may seem mildly shocking to a moralist - but then what isn't?

What really makes baseball so hard is it's retributive capacity for disaster if the smallest thing is done wrong, and the invisible presence of defeat that attends every game.

He thinks Goliath can end the war," Alek managed at last. "The man wants peace!" "As do we all," Count Volger said. "But there are many ways to end a war. Some are more peaceful than others.