Love is indeed its own hallucinogenic affecting the mind, heart and mood

This world today makes one by the day a recluse

I think cruelty is just loneliness disguised as bitterness.

I find above all that the expression, atonal music, is most unfortunate — it is on a par with calling flying the art of not falling, or swimming the art of not drowning.

The matters most debated in a deliberative body tend to be the minor ones where everybody understands the issues.

People are interested if you tell stories well and relevantly.

The vast majority of mankind never gives a thought of gratitude towards God for all His care and blessings.

I have fallen a hopeless victim to the Turk; he is the most charming of mortals.

I don't worry. It's just not in my nature, really.

Nobody writes if they have had a happy childhood.

All that I have achieved are these dreams locked in silver.

Learning appears as a way of staying young, perhaps of staying alive, and also as a way of growing up, perhaps facing death.