This little man was of the order of beings who must not be opposed, unless you possessed an all-dominant force sufficient to crush him at once.

Silence is of different kinds, and breathes different meanings.

The negation of severe suffering was the nearest approach to happiness I expected to know. Besides, I seemed to hold two lives - the life of thought, and that of reality.

Life is so constructed that an event does not, cannot, will not, match the expectation.

Happiness is the cure—a cheerful mind the preventive: cultivate both.

Where the bodily presence is weak and the speech contemptible, surely there cannot be error in making written language the medium of better utterance than faltering lips can achieve?

. . . if there was a hope of comfort for any moment, the heart or head of no human being in this house could yield it . . .

I had wanted to compromise with Fate: to escape occasional great agonies by submitting to a whole life of privation and small pains.

The world, I soon learned, held a different estimate: and I make no doubt, the world is very right in its view, yet believe also that I am not quite wrong in mine.

Unfeeling thing that I was, the sensibilities of the maternal heart were Greek and Hebrew to me.

In catalepsy and a dead trance, I studiously held the quick of my nature.

Build my night with your cheeks.

What I learned from the flowers: to live effortlessly.

Don't cater to stupidity.

Changing writing styles is like an actor taking on a different part.

Let thy mind's sweetness have its operation upon thy body, clothes, and habitation.

I try to get myself up and moving as early as possible. Optimum is to be on the treadmill while it is still dark outside.

The rules are simple and easily understood by anyone who has once seen the game, but to the totally uninitiated they appear to be hopelessly unintelligible.

I always felt a little bit like a little kid that's never grown up in the world of adults.

Men of genius are meteors destined to burn themselves out in lighting up their age.

Acting without knowing takes you right off the cliff.