The only power that exists is inside ourselves.

Don't be a fool for the Devil, darling.

And I realized that I’d tolerated him this long because of self-doubt.

The world changes, we do not, therein lies the irony that kills us.

Let the flesh instruct the mind.

I was a newborn vampire, weeping at the beauty of the night.

It was as if when I looked into his eyes I was standing alone on the edge of the world...on a windswept ocean beach. There was nothing but the soft roar of the waves.

As if the night had said to me, ‘You are the night and the night alone understands you and enfolds you in its arms’ One with the shadows. Without nightmare. An inexplicable peace.

How pathetic it is to describe these things which can't truly be described.

And he would listen, making only a few comments, always sympathetic, so that when I left him I had the distinct impression he had solved everything for me.

Then, are you master of us all? You didn't teach her that. Was she supposed to imbibe it from my quiet subservience?

Rather than being guided by images of how to be, people need to attend to how they actually are and to respect this.

Guardian angels are always with us.Guardian angels assist us to fulfill our highest purpose in life.

The feeling that the world is full of people who think different is synonymous with wrong.

Grown ups are certainly very strange.

Yes, Heaven is thine; but this Is a world of sweets and sours; Our flowers are merely—flowers.

No man knows what he will do till the right temptation comes.

Nature's great masterpiece, an elephant; the only harmless great thing.

Experience is a valuable thing. It enables us to recognize mistakes when we repeat them.

With technology, we can achieve universal access to secondary education within a generation.

My mother is the bravest human being I've ever come across.