To be able to look life in the face: that's worth living in a garret for, isn't it?

There are two ways of spreading light: to be The candle or the mirror that reflects it.

The desire for symmetry, for balance, for rhythm in form as well as in sound, is one of the most inveterate of human instincts.

To visit Morocco is still like turning the pages of some illuminated Persian manuscript all embroidered with bright shapes and subtle lines.

One can remain alive ... if one is unafraid of change, insatiable in intellectual curiosity interested in big things and happy in small ways.

If only we'd stop trying to be happy, we could have a pretty good time.

The real loneliness is living among all these kind people who only ask one to pretend!

Nothing is more perplexing to a man than the mental process of a woman who reasons her emotions.

One of the great things about travel is you find out how many good, kind people there are.

Set wide the window. Let me drink the day.

Life is always either; a tight -rope or a feather-bed . — Give me the tightrope.

I never said it would be easy, I only said it would be worth it.

We worship life on Usonia. Nature... The moon, the sun, the stars, the rivers.

O Hero, what a Hero hadst thou been.

As if men did not die fast enough, they are ingenious at finding out ways to destroy one another.

Sometimes you succeed and sometimes you don't.

If you want to become healthy, you have to surround yourself with a group of people that are getting healthy and you have to be connected to a community that is doing what you want to do.

The like is not the friend of the like in as far as he is like; still the good may be the friend of the good in as far as he is good.

The first time I walked into a library, I got so excited I almost wet my pants.

it's not about being fearless, it's about acting in spite of fear