The more a race is governed by its passions, the less it has acquired the habit of cautious and reasoned argument, the more intense will be its love of music.

She had caprices of a marvellous unexpectedness, and how is any one to imitate a caprice?

Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.

One can acquire everything in solitude except character.

Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness.

If you don't love me, it does not matter, anyway I can love for both of us.

Who knows whether it is not true that phosphorus and mind are not the same thing?

The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same.

A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.

A good book is an event in my life.

A novel is like a bow, and the violin that produces the sound is the reader's soul.

But only he who, himself enlightened, is not afraid of shadows.

My Miracle, living through a Traumatic brain Injury

Poverty scrapes these homes down until they all look the same, and they all have in common the absence of things that ought to be there. I might as well have been at one place all my life.

Never insult an alligator until after you have crossed the river.

Our inventions mirror our secret wishes.

I cannot understate the ability to handle classical texts such as Shakespeare.

Your love will deepen as your meditation deepens, and vice-versa: as your meditation blossoms, your love will also blossom.

We must motivate ourselves to do our very best, and by our example lead others to do their best as well.

The capacity to be intrinsic and vulgar is American.

The secret of life is getting today right. Everyone can get today right, and if you can do it once you can do it repeatedly.