There is no document of civilization which is not at the same time a document of barbarism.

Like ultraviolet rays memory shows to each man in the book of life a script that invisibly and prophetically glosses the text.

The more circumspectly you delay writing down an idea, the more maturely developed it will be on surrendering itself.

Of all the ways of acquiring books, writing them oneself is regarded as the most praiseworthy method.

To be happy is to be able to become aware of oneself without fright.

Work on good prose has three steps: a musical stage when it is composed, an architectonic one when it is built, and a textile one when it is woven.

The only way of knowing a person is to love them without hope.

Quotations in my work are like wayside robbers who leap out armed and relieve the stroller of his conviction.

The concept of progress must be grounded in the idea of catastrophe. That things are 'status quo' is the catastrophe

All human knowledge takes the form of interpretation.

Even the most perfect reproduction of a work of art is lacking in one element: its presence in time and space, its unique existence at the place where it happens to be.

With infinite wisdom and care your life is constantly sustained because Nature flows through you.

That beautiful day passed just as the saddest ones do, since the most radiant of days has a tomorrow.

Any book, which is at all important, should be reread immediately

Congratulations, you've just been promoted!

For me the rehearsal period is the part I most enjoy. It's the creating of the story.

Stratagem is the right hand of cunning.

There is no right to deny freedom to any object with a mind advanced enough to grasp the concept and desire the state. -(from "The Bicentennial Man) story)

Rid yourself of anything that is not directed toward God.

Two people can look at the same thing and see it differently.

I was taught the alphabet by my aunts before I was four years old, and I was reading the Bible in class and beginning geography when I was six.