The people are as severe toward the clergy as toward women; they want to see absolute devotion to duty from both.

Goethe has made a remark upon the perfectability of the human mind, which is full of sagacity: It is always advancing, but in a spiral line.

Love is the symbol of eternity.

Enthusiasm signifies 'God in us.'

Prayer is the life of the soul.

The greatest happiness is to transform one's feelings into action.

As we grow in wisdom, we pardon more freely.

In matters of the heart, nothing is true except the improbable.

The desire of the man is for the woman, but the desire of the woman is for the desire of the man.

Search for the truth is the noblest occupation of man; its publication is a duty.

We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.

It's the heart afraid of breaking that never learns to dance.

Finn was different.And he was different because she wanted him in her life in a way she hadn’t wanted anyone for a very long time.Maybe ever.

She toyed around with his smiles and emotions, till they actually turned plastic. And then, She changed the toy…

The only things you regret are the things you don't do.

And then there is the universal role of adult. When you play that role, you take yourself and life very seriously. Spontaneity, lightheartedness, and joy are not part of that role.

The existential split in man would be unbearable could he not establish a sense of unity within himself and with the natural and human world outside.

Three hours of writing require twenty hours of preparation. Luckily I have learned to dream about the work, which saves me some working time.

Secretly, we wish anyone we love will think exactly the way we do.

Ask for what you want. Believe that you deserve it, and then allow Life to give it to you.

You have to have the time to feel sorry for yourself in order to be a good abstract expressionist.