Time and space are fragments of the infinite for the use of finite creatures.

Tell me what you feel in your room when the full moon is shining in upon you and your lamp is dying out, and I will tell you how old you are, and I shall know if you are happy.

There is no respect for others without humility in one's self.

Learn to... be what you are, and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not.

Women wish to be loved without a why or a wherefore; not because they are pretty, or good, or well-bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves.

Destiny has two ways of crushing us - by refusing our wishes and by fulfilling them.

In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past

In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past - a pious guardian of some affection, of which the object has disappeared.

Analysis kills spontaneity. The grain once ground into flour springs and germinates no more.

Truth is not only violated by falsehood; it may be equally outraged by silence.

You desire to know the art of living, my friend? It is contained in one phrase: make use of suffering.

The past with its pleasures its rewards its foolishness its punishments is there for each of us forever and it should be.

He who gets nearer the sun is leader, the aristocrat of aristocrats, or he who, like Dostoevsky, gets nearest the moon of our non-being.

If all opposition were curtailed, if all maladies were removed, then the primary purposes of the Father's plan would be frustrated.

Nothing doth so fool a man as extreme passion. This doth make them fools which otherwise are not, and show them to be fools which are so.

...the sole thing of which any man can be deprived is the present; since this is all he owns, and nobody can lose what is not his.

Nothing troubles you for which you do not yearn.

Silent moments are valuable! They give you a good opportunity to design new paths in your life!

Some kids my age experiment with drugs, I experiment with music.

My father was a proctologist and my mother was an abstract artist, so that's how I view the world.

Humility is probably the most difficult virtue to realize.