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.

Success, after all, loves a witness, but failure can't exist without one.

You can survive without artistry, but you cannot live without artistry.

The secrets of evolution, are time and death. There's an unbroken thread that stretches from those first cells to us.

His body and his mind went about their different businesses. The former, freed from conscious instruction, breathed, rolled, sweated, and digested. The latter went dreaming.

Being German, I think we don't really express a lot of things.

Give her not greatness. For great souls must stand Alone and lonely in this little world: Cleft rocks that show the great Creator's hand, Thither by earthquakes hurled.

Dress is at all times a frivolous distinction, and excessive solicitude about it often destroys its own aim.

Modern money is almost altogether credit money.

I'm pretty transparent and have no problem sharing my weaknesses.

Every breath is a giveaway dance between you and the plants.