The good author is he who contemplates without marked joy or excessive sorrow the adventures of his soul amongst criticisms.

Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men.

The air of the New World seems favorable to the art of declamation.

It is not the clear-sighted who rule the world. Great achievements are accomplished in a blessed, warm fog.

I don't like work... but I like what is in work - the chance to find yourself. Your own reality - for yourself, not for others - which no other man can ever know.

The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.

We penetrated deeper and deeper into the heart of darkness

If you don't make mistakes, you don't make anything .

There is nothing more enticing, disenchanting, and enslaving than the life at sea.

To a teacher of languages there comes a time when the world is but a place of many words and man appears a mere talking animal not much more wonderful than a parrot.

They talk of a man betraying his country, his friends, his sweetheart. There must be a moral bond first. All a man can betray is his conscience.

The greatest part of our existence enfold in service of humanity.

Nature abhors a virgin - a frozen asset.

Sometimes, the emptiness comes to fill the space between my heart and my head. It consumes every thought, every corner of my mind, like demons that can’t be put to bed.

Christmas albums are not something you do frequently.

Charity that is always beginning at home stays there.

Yesterday influences today, thus creates tomorrow.

As you travel though life, offer good wishes to each being you meet.

If you work on your creativity, you deepen your spirituality. And if you work on your spirituality, you deepen your creativity.

Grover didn't say anything for awhile. Then, when I thought he was going to give me some deep philosophical comment to make me feel better, he said, "Can I have your apple?

I think that "ambition" is a weird and often negatively used word.