The thing of course, is to make yourself alive. Most people remain all of their lives in a stupor.

Dare to be strong and courageous. That is the road. Venture anything.

The object of art is not to make salable pictures. It is to save yourself.

The lives of people are like young trees in a forest. They are being choked by climbing vines. The vines are old thoughts and beliefs planted by dead men.

You won’t arrive. It is an endless search.

There is within every human being a deep well of thinking over which a heavy iron lid is kept clamped.

I think the whole glory of writing lies in the fact that it forces us out of ourselves and into the lives of others.

I go about looking at horses and cattle. They eat grass, make love, work when they have to, bear their young. I am sick with envy of them.

It was a cold day but the sun was out and the trees were like great bonfires against gray distant fields and hills.

The whole object of education is...to develop the mind. The mind should be a thing that works.

Interest in the lives of others, the high evaluation of these lives, what are they but the overflow of the interest a man finds in himself, the value he attributes to his own being?.

La felicità non consiste nel mettersi al riparo dalla sofferenza, ma di integrarla al tessuto della nostra esistenza.

In 1895 Lady Londonberry commented acidly on a bridegroom who had 'married the 10, 000 a year as well as the lady.

We think because we have words, not the other way around. The more words we have, the better able we are to think conceptually.

The first petition that we are to make to Almighty God is for a good conscience the next for health of mind and then of body.

All recurring joy is pain refined.

When [Theresa May] says something she means it and she gets her way.

Colin Montgomerie is a few French fries short of a Happy Meal.

Each one of you has created a sense of self. That's what the tonal does. Each one of you is taught a system of maintenance that has been developed by humankind from your birth till your death.

Your fate is to be what you are. As mine is to be what I am...your master.

Do not ever say to anybody it's time for us to have a woman in the leadership, because that's the least important selling point.