True poetry is truer than science, because it is synthetic, and seizes at once what the combination of all the sciences is able, at most, to attain as a final result.

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.

The prisoners of the cultures are mostly the women! House is the name of the prison!

I am the wood frame, the bundle of ox hair, and the creative spark... my value unhangable.

If you want to do something, you do it anyway, and handle the obstacles as they come.

Remember, guns don't kill people - unless you practice real hard.

I was born in high heels and I've worn them ever since.

President Bush's war on Iraq is viewed broadly in Islamic communities as an attack on Islam, and thus the President has alienated a large part of one fifth of the world's population.

And they like being able to turn on the television day in and day out to see someone that they know and they feel comfortable with and trust hopefully and respect even.

'Tis pleasant, sure, to see one's name in print. A book's a book, although there's nothing in 't.

Worship God in the difficult circumstances, and when He chooses, He will alter them in two seconds.

There is always death at the end of your plan and life at the end of God's plan.