Man has not a greater enemy than himself.

Love is the crowning grace of humanity.

Five enemies of peace inhabit with us - avarice, ambition, envy, anger, and pride; if these were to be banished, we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace.

Death is a sleep that ends our dreaming. Oh, that we may be allowed to wake before death wakes us.

Perhaps out there, somewhere, someone is sighing for your absence; and with this thought, my soul begins to breathe.

It is better to will the good than to know the truth.

Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.

All pleasure in the world is a passing dream.

Virtue is health, vice is sickness.

For though I am a body of this earth, my firm desire is born from the stars.

Books can warm the heart with friendly words and counsel, entering into a close relationship with us which is articulate and alive

You'll have to leave my meals on a tray outside the door because I'll beworking pretty late on the secret of making myself invisible, which may take me almost until eleven o'clock.

We begin as dupes and end as scoundrels.

Foolishness is doing ignorantly something forbidden repeatedly by sages since ages, and Madness is doing the very same prohibited thing repeatedly but intentionally.

I've been a spy for almost all of my adult life - I don't like being in the spotlight.

Youth sees too far to see how near it is To seeing farther.

Our job is to become OK with who we are and what our life has been - and keep enduring.

surrenderin is unimaginably more dangerous than struggling for survival!

The avant-garde is now stranded in the past.

Ignorance worships mystery; reason explains it; the one grovels, the other soars.

Oh my God — I'm turning into my mother!