Shakespeare alternated between musical surrenders to social prestige and magnificent fits of poetic remorse.

Until the missing story of ourselves is told, nothing besides told can suffice us: we shall go on quietly craving it.

Nature is what you don't have to trouble about. It looks after itself.

Poetry brings all possible experience to the same degree: a degree in the consciousness beyond which the consciousness itself cannot go.

I met God. 'What,' he said, 'you already?' 'What,' I said, 'you still?

In religion is much tiredness of people, a giving over of their doing to Someone Else.

People get wisdom from thinking, not from learning.

Truth rings no bells.

Woman has two works to perform: a work of differentiation, of man from herself, and a work of unification, of man with herself. ... We, woman, are now entering upon our second work.

My function as a writer is not story-telling but truth-telling: to make things plain.

I believe that misconceptions about oneself that one does not correct where possible act as a bad magic.

The talent for being happy is appreciating and liking what you have instead of what you don't have.

Friends are like a pleasant park where you wish to go while you may enjoy the flowers you may not eat them.

You need to enjoy yourself and just get into the routine of keeping fit and enjoying being active. That's always easier once you've made friends in the sport.

You can't make people love you but you can make them fear you

The music tends to be an expression of one's darker moments.

There is a very good thing about hating evil. If you hate evil, that's all you will hate

love at any age takes everything you've got.

First and last, what is demanded of genius is love of truth.

To defy the laws of tradition is a crusade only of the brave.

Everyday some people discover you! What good things have you got for them? Just like preparing a soup, prepare good things and keep them ready for the people who discover you!