Time is but the space between our memories; as soon as we cease to perceive this space, time has disappeared.

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.

We seek to find peace of mind in the word, the formula, the ritual. The hope is illusion.

If you are in business, you are not enjoying. You are working.

All I'm trying to do is survive and make good out of the dirty, nasty, unbelievable lifestyle that they gave me.

That is another of your odd notions," said the Prefect, who had a fashion of calling every thing "odd" that was beyond his comprehension, and thus lived amid an absolute legion of "oddities.

No Victory Without Suffering

Because I move around among people I get inspired by the people.

The American empire will not disappear... because America does not have an empire.

Most mothers kiss and scold together.

The small share of happiness attainable by man exists only insofar as he is able to cease to think of himself.

I am indeed, sir, a surgeon to old shoes; when they are in great danger I recover them.