The craft of the novelist does lie first of all in story-telling.

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

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

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.

The Secret is - there really is no secret. Everything you need lies within yourself.

Will power is only the tensile strength of one's own disposition. One cannot increase it by a single ounce.

I am really glad women are speaking out.

War will make corpses of us all.

Love is not getting, but giving; It is goodness, and honor, and peace and pure living.

It's a great relief to feel that you're working with someone rather than for someone. You don't feel that you're being tested, as it were.

People should not expect the state to protect them from fraudsters. If we do, we get into the habit of neglecting our own powers of intellectual discernment.

The test of moral ideas is moral results.

Discipline is the virtue that begins in obedience and flowers in self-control.

You don't play a game or color a picture with a child to show your superiority. Rather, you choose to limit yourself so as to facilitate and honor that relationship.