The sight of anything extremely beautiful, in nature or in art, brings back the memory of what one loves, with the speed of lightning.

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.

Some reviews give pain. This is regrettable, but no author has the right to whine. He was not obliged to be an author. He invited publicity, and he must take the publicity that comes along.

Whoever tells a lie is not pure of heart, and such a person can not cook a clean soup.

My most cryptic, strange songs might be my most personal, but that isn't how people are going to receive them, because they don't know the code.

I verily believe that I never took infant in my arms that did not the moment it was there by its cries beg to be removed.

Real morality is possible when the sanctions for morality are also tangible and real.

Every lie is a poison; there are no harmless lies. Only the truth is safe. Only the truth gives me consolation - it is the one unbreakable diamond.

What will you do in the mundane days of faithfulness?

Beginning with the stimulus, Obama has repeatedly inserted the government into the free market for political reasons - and with disastrous results.

Both light and shadow are the dance of Love.

The service meant so much to me. You don't know privileged I feel and how lucky I am to have served.