Man is saved by love and duty, and by the hope that springs from duty, or rather from the moral facts of consciousness, as a flower springs from the soil.

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.

Nature is not a place to visit. It is home.

No mountain is of any appreciable height to break the curve of the sphere.

Keep the enemy in the dark about where and when our forces will attack.

Contradiction is not a sign of falsity nor the lack of contradiction a sign of truth.

I've always been at the intersection of computers and whatever they can revolutionize.

Die before you die, there is no chance after.

It's silly to keep people alive who have a terrible disease.

Look, I didn't want to be a half-blood.

Things just happen. What the hell.

For Kenya: we have a chance to start again each time we meet one another. The ghosts do not need to define the future.