To understand is to possess the thing understood, first by sympathy and then by intelligence.

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.

A single man is minority, a leader is the majority.

Ring the bells that still can ring Forget your perfect offering There is a crack in everything That's how the light gets in.

To lead, you must touch men's hearts.

I want to live for something. I don't want to live to get charity food to give me enough strength to go back to get more charity food.

The closer the genetic relationship of the family members, as for example father-to-son, as opposed to uncle-to-nephew, the higher the degree of cooperation.

New York is the capital, the national headquarters of homelessness.... No one feels he belongs here.

You love simply because you cannot help it.

.. the whole idea is that if you turn your amp up to 10, you should still be able to play at a whisper - you've got to learn to control your hands

You have the right to speak your mind.

Maybe lifting someone else’s weight makes yours a little more bearable