We gave him a hearty welcome, for there was nearly half as much of the entertaining as of the contemptible about the man.

The scariest monsters are the ones that lurk within our souls.

I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.

There is no beauty without some strangeness

All suffering originates from craving, from attachment, from desire.

The believer is happy. The doubter is wise.

All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.

Years of love have been forgot, In the hatred of a minute.

And so, being young and dipt in folly, I fell in love with melancholy.

I remained too much inside my head and ended up losing my mind.

They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.

Compassion without discipline is egregious self-sabotage.

If the storm forgets to bring a rainbow, paint your own.

I am a book lover. I buy, collect and read books.

Hounds follow those who feed them.

Genius is an infinite capacity for causing pain.

When you are in love with someone you want to be near him all the time except when you are out buying things and charging them to him.

Purity does not mean crushing the instincts but having the instincts as servants and not the master of the spirit.

It is not enough to have a song on your lips. You must also have a song in your heart.

When a man talks with absolute sincerity and freedom he goes on a voyage of discovery. The whole company has shares in the enterprise.

Tolstoy was the greatest apostle of nonviolence that the present age has produced.