Understanding, as we understand it, is misunderstanding.

The great writers of aphorisms read as if they had all known each other well.

People love as self-recognition what they hate as an accusation.

Whenever you observe an animal closely, you feel as if a human being sitting inside were making fun of you.

All the things one has forgotten scream for help in dreams.

There is no such thing as an ugly language. Today I hear every language as if it were the only one, and when I hear of one that is dying, it overwhelms me as though it were the death of the earth.

Every decision is liberating, even if it leads to disaster. Otherwise, why do so many people walk upright and with open eyes into their misfortune?

His head is made of stars, but not yet arranged into constellations.

When you write down your life, every page should contain something no one has ever heard about

The process of writing has something infinite about it. Even though it is interrupted each night, it is one single notation.

Explain nothing. Put it there. Say it. Leave.

You haven't given your dream your all until it is no longer an unfulfilled wish in your life.

Nothing can be gained by extensive study and wide reading. Give them up immediately.

One cannot judge a man for the sins of his family.

We like to learn all we need from earlier generations, but we have to find out for ourselves what we need; nobody else can do that for us.

I think our failure in the production of good town churches of distinctive character must have struck you often, as it has me, when contrasted with our comparative success in country churches.

Women mostly remember the men who made them laugh, and men - only the women who made them cry.

Unrequited love's a bore.

All I'm trying to do is wipe out heart disease, diabetes, hypertension, and obesity.

I've made a lot of mistakes and I don't regret any of them. Sometimes that's the only way you learn.

A grandma's name is little less in love than is the doting title of a mother.