Silences have a climax, when you have got to speak.

One can live in the shadow of an idea without grasping it.

When you love someone all your saved up wishes start coming out.

Jealousy is no more than feeling alone against smiling enemies.

Some people are molded by their admirations, others by their hostilities.

We are minor in everything but our passions.

Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope; it is impossible.

Fate is not an eagle, it creeps like a rat.

It is not helpful to help a friend by putting coins in his pockets when he has got holes in his pockets.

Disappointment tears the bearable film off life.

somehow at parties at which one stays standing up one seems to require to be more concentratedly intelligent than one does at those at which one can sit down.

An apology is the superglue of life! It can repair just about anything!!

what's right? If you want something, you have the right to take it. If you want to do something, you have the right to do it.

Everything subtracted from the present is added to the future with interest.

Shine brightly, so you can help those who have not found their path a way through the darkness.

The secrets of evolution are death and time-the deaths of enormous numbers of lifeforms that were imperfectly adapted to the environment; and time for a long succession of small mutations.

Unquestionably, there is progress. The average American now pays out twice as much in taxes as he formerly got in wages.

Normally, what you’re envious of is a book, not a writer: standards, ideas, levels … almost nonexistent things.

It is important to remember that the Pacific Ocean covers a quarter of the world's surface and that each Pacific country has its own cultural, historical and ethnic identity.

Man will rise, if God by exception lends him a hand; he will rise by abandoning and renouncing his own means, and letting himselfbe raised and uplifted by purely celestial means.

A dogma recognized throughout antiquity... (that) the soul expiates its sins in the darkness of the infernal regions and... afterwards... passes into new bodies, there to undergo new trials.