The whole secret of the study of nature lies in learning how to use one's eyes.

Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness.

The cigar is the perfect complement to an elegant lifestyle.

We cannot tear out a single page of our life, but we can throw the whole book in the fire.

Let us accept truth, even when it surprises us and alters our views.

Simplicity is the most difficult thing to secure in this world; it is the last limit of experience and the last effort of genius.

It is a mistake to regard age as a downhill grade toward dissolution. The reverse is true. As one grows older, one climbs with surprising strides.

The trade of authorship is a violent, and indestructible obsession.

You may impose silence upon me, but you can not prevent me from thinking.

Butterflies are but flowers that blew away one sunny day when Nature was feeling at her most inventive and fertile.

The intellect seeks, the heart finds.

Great is God.

If your options are closing-in around you and you feel panicked, scared and helpless, this is the time for action.

He wanted pure compliments, just as he wanted unconditional love.

I regard romantic comedies as a subgenre of sci-fi, in which the world operates according to different rules than my regular human world.

When the real is no longer what it used to be, nostalgia assumes its full meaning.

As long as men are liable to die and are desirous to live, a physician will be made fun of, but he will be well paid.

I didn't really understand that Vipassana is a relatively new form of Buddhism that was based on the storage of pain. So the idea is that every time you don't scream, that's your Buddhist side.

Father and Mother are apostles, bishops and priests to their children, for it is they who make them acquainted with the gospel.

You must torment people with your artistic delight, scaring mother and grandmother in the middle of the night.