To learn new habits is everything, for it is to reach the substance of life. Life is but a tissue of habits.

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.

Humans are more dependent on learning for survival than other species, We have no instincts that automatically find us food and shelter !

If the spiritual life be healthy, under the full power of the Holy Spirit, praying without ceasing will be natural.

I don't come from a privileged background.

Religion is rather the attempt to express the complete reality of goodness through every aspect of our being.

That’s what makes a character interesting from an actor’s perspective - the more screwed up, the better.

So a truthful assessment of how America is doing in the war on terror as a result of President Bush's war on Iraq is that we have been set back by decades.

You know, quite a few species of fish require two or more sexual partners.

As it grows ever more complicated today, musical art seeks out combinations more dissonant, stranger, and harsher for the ear. Thus, it comes ever closer to the noise-sound.

There are many ways of communicating. Some hold the theory that new forms of communication between people can be obtained through hallucinogenic drugs.

I have often been accused of putting my foot in my mouth, but I will never put my hand in your pockets