We are never more discontented with others than when we are discontented with ourselves.

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.

... as a reminder that a white man could still kill him for nothing.

Republics are brought to their ends by luxury monarchies by poverty.

The average pencil is seven inches long with just a half-inch eraser - in case you thought optimism was dead.

Self-help is the best help

I believe in the sun, even when it rains.

The ideas of [ Le Corbusier ] that actually found their way into practice were deeply destructive - for instance, the tower-in-a-park, which mutated into the vertical slums of the late 20th century.

Terrible times in which priests no longer merit the praise of poets and in which poets have not yet begun to be priests.

Much of your pain is self-chosen.

The whole life lies in the verb seeing.

She accepted it from then on. Books liked her. Books wanted to look after her.