The greater amount of truth is impulsively uttered; thus the greater amount is spoken, not written.

The scariest monsters are the ones that lurk within our souls.

I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.

There is no beauty without some strangeness

All suffering originates from craving, from attachment, from desire.

The believer is happy. The doubter is wise.

All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.

Years of love have been forgot, In the hatred of a minute.

And so, being young and dipt in folly, I fell in love with melancholy.

I remained too much inside my head and ended up losing my mind.

They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.

The joy of small that makes life large.

Nobody's innocent... but that doesn't reset the bar on guilt.

There are many sources of happiness. Doing goodness is one of them and one of the best!

You live with your thoughts-so be careful what they are.

My father wasn't a cruel man. And I loved him. But he was a pretty tough character. His own father was even tougher - one of those Victorians, hard as iron - but my dad was tough enough.

Society cannot exist unless a controlling power upon will and appetite be placed somewhere, and the less of it there is within, the more there must be without.

Make a list of twenty-five things you want to experience before you die. Carry it in your wallet or purse and refer to it often.

A library is an adjustable wrench for opening the head.

The word "journal" has in its root the word jour, French for day. A journey was the distance that could be traveled in a day. A journal, therefore, consisted of the writing one recorded per day.

I don't have to convince everybody in the room. I just need a critical mass of the people in the room.