One can acquire everything in solitude but character.

She had caprices of a marvellous unexpectedness, and how is any one to imitate a caprice?

Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.

One can acquire everything in solitude except character.

Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness.

If you don't love me, it does not matter, anyway I can love for both of us.

Who knows whether it is not true that phosphorus and mind are not the same thing?

The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same.

A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.

A good book is an event in my life.

A novel is like a bow, and the violin that produces the sound is the reader's soul.

God can accomplish His plan, only if a man will be fully obedient to His will

The choreographic process is exhausting. It happens on one's feet after hours of work, and the energy required is roughly the equivalent of writing a novel and winning a tennis match simultaneously.

I never wanted to be famous. I always wanted to take famous photographs.

I'm starting to swing the bat now like I know I can. You can't really explain it. I'm just seeing the ball good and everything is going my way.

Extremes are ever neighbors; 'tis a step from one to the other.

I like to have fun. I have never done anything well in my entire life that I didn't enjoy.

There is always something left to love. And if you haven't learned that, you ain't learned nothing.

If you hold back on the emotions--if you don't allow yourself to go all the way through them--you can never get to being detached, you're too busy being afraid.

It is as if I can see my body in front of me.

You don't want to look too far ahead or get too excited about anything, so I just want to keep doing what I've been doing.