Of all the things that it is possible to donate, to donate your own body is infinitely more worthwhile.

Live as if you already are what you wish to become.

The Sanskrit language, whatever be its antiquity is of wonderful structure, more perfect than the Greek, more copious than the Latin and more exquisitely refined than either.

Never neglect an opportunity for improvement.

In the whisper of the leaves appears an interchange of love.

My opinion is, that power should always be distrusted, in whatever hands it is placed.

An experiment in nature, like a text in the Bible, is capable of different interpretations, according to the preconceptions of the interpreter.

[I]n every part of this eastern world, from Pekin to Damascus, the popular teachers of moral wisdom have immemorially been poets.

Wherever we direct our attention to Hindu literature the notion of infinity presents itself.

The only road to the highest stations in this country is that of the law.

Seven hours to law, to soothing slumber seven, Ten to the world allot, and all to heaven.

. . . crazy world or maybe it's just the view we have of it, looking through a crack in the door, never being able to see the whole room, the whole picture.

I’ve given up already in life but something or someone keep pushing me to keep going.

Learn to recognize omens, and follow them

Order is the key to all problems.

When I was a child, my father taught me to put up my fists like a boy and to be prepared to defend myself at all times.

Who is this Monet whose name sounds just like mine and who is taking advantage of my notoriety?

From the period when I wrote La Nausea I wanted to create a morality. My evolution consists in my no longer dreaming of doing so.

Anytime you get men in glitter, it's a flamboyant occasion!

Americans aren't accepting of black humor, it's terrible.

It was, I remembered thinking, the most difficult walk anyone ever had to make. In every way, a walk to remember.