There's no credit in not doing what you don't want to do. There's no virtue in not falling, when you're not tempted.

It's the people who try to be clever who never are; the people who are clever never think of trying to be.

Love knows not distance; it hath no continent; its eyes are for the stars.

Imagination is at the root of much that passes for love.

Every man should have laws of his own, I should think; commandments of his own, for every man has a different set of circumstances wherein to work - or worry.

Every shot that kills ricochets.

In all secrets there is a kind of guilt, however beautiful or joyful they may be, or for what good end they may be set to serve. Secrecy means evasion, and evasion means a problem to the moral mind.

It is not the broken heart that kills, but broken pride, monseigneur.

War is cruelty, and none can make it gentle.

She belongs to a race of delightful women, who never do any harm, whom everybody calls good, and who are very severe on those who do not pretend to be good.

The real business of life is trying to understand each other.

Even if mankind can go on without them, a piece of our vibrantly diverse world dies along with each species.

Planning helps you to avoid potholes in the journey of life

Better to have your enemies inside your tent pissing out, then to have them outside your tent pissing in.

Women were complicated creatures. Any man who thought he had one figured out simply wasn't paying attention.

The two kinds of people on earth are the people who lift and the people who lean.

As you meditate, you will find that consciousness itself will move you beyond time and space and condition into a larger, vaster, more beautiful state of awareness.

Without analysis, no synthesis.

Life is a circle. The end of one journey is the beginning of the next.

I can't give any absolute definition of what love is, or even whether it ought to exist.

I can't understand these chaps who go round American universities explaining how they write poems: It's like going round explaining how you sleep with your wife.