We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.

Goethe has made a remark upon the perfectability of the human mind, which is full of sagacity: It is always advancing, but in a spiral line.

Love is the symbol of eternity.

Enthusiasm signifies 'God in us.'

Prayer is the life of the soul.

The greatest happiness is to transform one's feelings into action.

As we grow in wisdom, we pardon more freely.

In matters of the heart, nothing is true except the improbable.

The desire of the man is for the woman, but the desire of the woman is for the desire of the man.

Search for the truth is the noblest occupation of man; its publication is a duty.

Love is admiring with the heart. And admiring is loving with the mind.

Whoever is godly, loves good.

Things are not as they seem. You do not understand. There is no escape. This is all there is.” I had never seen eyes filled with so much sadness.

If man can live in Manhattan, he can live anywhere.

Every afternoon, I shut the door of my bedroom to write: Poetry was secret, dangerous, wicked and delicious.

A lot of people who look at my photographs think it is an easy joke, but it does take a bit of thinking about.

When deep down in the core of your being you believe that your soulmate exists, there is no limit to the ways he or she can enter your life.

Writers are storytellers. So are readers.

I paint my face and travel at night. You don't know it's over until you're in a body bag.

Real difficulties can be overcome; it is only the imaginary ones that are unconquerable.

Music is its own language - if you don't speak it, it's hard to say what you're trying to do.