The artist tries to see what there is to be interested in... He has not created something, he has seen something.

You want to know about anybody? See what books they read, and how they've been read.

Never forget that God tests his real friends more severely than the lukewarm ones.

But hands are sacred things. Touch is personal, fingers of love, feelers of blind eyes, tongues of those who cannot talk.

I am in limbo, and in limbo there are no races, no prizes, no changes, no chances. There are merely degrees of endurance, and endurance never was my strong point.

Literature, like memory, selects only the vivid patches.

Language is by its very nature a communal thing.

There is a time, when passing through a light, that you walk in your own shadow.

You must never lose the awareness that in yourself you are nothing, you are only an instrument. An instrument is nothing until it is lifted.

It's the possibility that when you're dead you might still go on hurting that bothers me.

It's not a question of doing the best thing for the environment - the best thing for the environment is for people to stop using vast amounts of energy.

His dimples were strategically placed as though angels had made thumbprints on him.

I was as terrible at giving compliments as I was at receiving them.

Set your strong intention, work hard, and pray, slowly but surely, what you strive for will come to be. This is God’s law.” -127

We live in an ascending scale when we live happily one thing leading to another in an endless series.

It is conceded by all that man is the very highest type of all living creatures on the earth. His intelligence is far superior to that of any other earthly being.

The door you open to give love is the very one through which love arrives.

Customers who are merely satisfied remain your customers only as long as everything goes their way.

Books do actually consume air and exhale perfumes.

One must never forbid oneself anything. One must also be able to go back, one must always be able to change.

I have no time to be in a hurry.