Sensation tell us a thing is. Thinking tell us what it is this thing is. Feeling tells us what this thing is to us.

Thinking is difficult, that’s why most people judge.

Life really does begin at forty. Up until then, you are just doing research.

To be normal is the ultimate aim of the unsuccessful.

Do not compare, do not measure. No other way is like yours. All other ways deceive and tempt you. You must fulfill the way that is in you.

The world will ask you who you are, and if you don't know, the world will tell you.

The difference between a good life and a bad life is how well you walk through the fire

If our religion is based on salvation, our chief emotions will be fear and trembling. If our religion is based on wonder, our chief emotion will be gratitude.

We are not what happened to us, we are what we wish to become.

Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

The first half of life is devoted to forming a healthy ego, the second half is going inward and letting go of it.

The vase was placed upon my desk, and there were orange-blossoms in it—orange-blossoms, in an English winter!

Everything we do has consequences.

I enjoy classics, but classics are classics for a reason.

When I read Andrew Motion's biography, I wept. It's something about the purity of the story and how fresh it was because of the love letters Keats wrote.

But I guess everything in life is a bit disappointing, isn't it?

I was never anorexic, so I was never that skinny. I was never bony-bony. But I remember thinking, I don't want to be this skinny.

I've always been a fan of or desired to or responded to variety. I like variety in life, so variety in work is a must.

Many people start a business only to make money. Just to make money is not a strong enough mission.

When I first saw the light of day on this planet, it seemed as if I had been rudely awakened from a death-like sleep.

It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again.