We only pass everything by like a transposition of air.

Every angel is terrifying.

For beauty is nothing but the beginning of terrorwhich we are barely able to endure, and it amazes us so, because it serenely disdains to destroy us.Every angel is terrible.

For beauty is nothing but the beginning of terror.

Isn’t it time that, loving, we freed ourselves from the beloved, and, trembling, endured:as the arrow endures the bow, so as to be, in its flight, something more than itself?

Isn't it time that, in love, we freed ourselves from the loved one and, trembling, endured:as the arrow endures the string, collecting itselfto be more than itself as it shoots?

Look, I am living. On what? Neither childhood nor futurelessens . . . . Superabundant existencewells in my heart.

Then again, that's how the most successful predators work, she thinks ruefully. We stumble into their traps and do their work for them while we're busy getting on with the business of living.

Motherhood is still the great unknown. For some, it brings incomparable happiness and enriches their identity. Others manage as best they can to reconcile contradictory demands.

You allow people to treat you the way they do. Your energy, confidence and attitude is the currency that others will transact with.

The highest political buzz word is not liberty, equality, fraternity or solidarity; it is service.

Some Harvard guy said that acid would open our minds, pot wouldn't hurt us, and cocaine was benign.

Honest work deserves honest pay.

The way to war is a well-paved highway and the way to peace is still a wilderness.

In the world of knowledge, the idea of good appears last of all, and is seen only with effort.

He who dishonors himself [by lying about his opinions] for the sake of being honored by others will find that two mistakes have been made - one by himself, and the other, by the people.

Everything in your life might be good, but there's still this notion that everything is not going to be okay, that there's more pain and suffering to come down the road.