To know how to grow old is the master-work of wisdom and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.

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.

He said that we belonged together because he was born with a flower and I was born with a butterfly and that flowers and butterflies need each other for survival.

It is not the destination that matters, but how one arrives there.

I need to go hunting now, " he rasped. Before I tear off your clothes and plunge my c*** and my fangs inside you.

I have travelled many places but still I find that perhaps the greatest journey is through one's own mind.

I am often impressed with those that admit their ignorance, for it is the first step towards breaking out of the prison called freedom.

Presidential elections always turn on personalities, they turn on how campaigns are run, they turn on natural desires for change.

Cheese is one of my great weaknesses, I could eat the stuff by the pound.

You must learn to wrestle against the things that hinder your communication with God.

The reflection of the current social paradigm tells us we are largely determined by conditioning and conditions.

Scotsmen are metaphisical and emotional, they are sceptical and mystical, they are romantic and ironic, they are cruel and tender, and full of mirth and despair.