Those who look for reasons to hate miss opportunities to love.

Friendship based solely upon gratitude is like a photograph; with time it fades.

Never can a room look comfortable without books ... Books ought to be scattered all over the house, even in the passages, in the bedroom, les livres du chevet, everywhere.

My greatest wish is to write in such a manner that all may think they have written it themselves.

You can never make someone punctual who is not, or quick who is slow, or lively who wants to plod on carefully. I have learnt that every fault is an exaggerated quality, nothing else.

I am quite above physical death and believe it to be only the birth throes for a much purer life in a much purer draping.

[Written in 1901:] Nothing has been so deplorable for countries as centralization. I am afraid when I see Germany grow so powerful, and centralizing in Berlin; it is the beginning of the end!

One doesn't know one's self what grain one sows, that works on and on, through one and through many lives, transmitted from heart to heart and from lips to lips.

He hated this feeling of free-floating, just drifting from place to place, thought to thought, without any sense of anchor or root.

Be the woman who falls so deeply in love with herself that nothing can stop her from loving all of life!

We were promised sufferings. They were part of the program. We were even told, Blessed are they that morn.

There has never been a miracle drug that could equal the Word of God. God's medicine is the answer to every need.

'Tis not the eating, nor 'tis not the drinking that is to be blamed, but the excess.

I've always wanted to be independent and answer for myself. That probably is the part of me I would class to be feminist. I'd like to have children; marriage I have a bit of an issue with.

Really, really obscene hip-hop. I love it so much. It makes me laugh and then it makes me want to dance.

There IS more criticism of puritanism, and more distance from Christian morality, than there has been before.

If you can't stop thinking about your job, in a positive way that energizes you, then you're probably where you're meant to be.

A slave has but one master. An ambition man, has as many as there are people who helped him get his fortune.