To live we must conquer incessantly we must have the courage to be happy.

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.

Who can be astonished at anything, when he has once been astonished at the manger and the cross? What is there wonderful left after one has seen the Saviour?

We all have a different sightl and lifestyle, but we end up all the same in peace.

Grow up and that is a terribly hard thing to do. It is much easier to skip it and go from one childhood to another.

Nebraska sets the standard for how fans should act.

My real father was a portrait painter. I went to a lot of auctions as a kid and galleries.

The world, in its sheer exuberance of kindness, will try to bury the poet with warm and lovely human trivialities. It will even ask him to autograph books.

I think having an uncompromising ideology eventually forces you out of the norm.

The way to tell if your job is done: if you're alive, you've got a job.

We've always said that our band is pretty much an open system and there's no rules governing anything... so who knows what the future will hold?

Everyone is a genius at being themselves