Pure truth cannot be assimilated by the crowd; it must be communicated by contagion.

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.

Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been." _Mark Twain (Author)

I grew up in Portugal, and people there party 'til 7 or 8 in the morning there.

Joint undertakings stand a better chance when they benefit both sides.

Take away the self-conceited, and there will be elbowroom in the world.

I had no intention of becoming an academic. How could a person who was having trouble reading become an academic?

Education is so much of an organic unity that, if any of the stages or elements of it be defective, the deficiency is felt throughout all the subsequent growth of the organism.

Acting is just common sense. It isn't hard if you put yourself aside and just do what the writer wrote.

The reason to have a home is to keep certain people in and everyone else out.

All stress comes from resisting what is.

If there were no mystery left to explore life would get rather dull, wouldn't it?