What is love? two souls and one flesh friendship? two bodies and one soul.

God often visits us, but most of the time we are not at home.

When orators and auditors have the same prejudices, those prejudices run a great risk of being made to stand for incontestable truths.

Solitude vivifies, isolation kills.

Poetry is truth in its Sunday clothes.

Poetry is the exquisite expression of exquisite impressions.

A fine quotation is a diamond in the hand of a man of wit and a pebble in the hand of a fool.

There is a slowness in affairs which ripens them, and a slowness which rots them.

Nothing vivifies, and nothing kills, like the emotions.

I look at what I have not and think myself unhappy; others look at what I have and think me happy.

Conscientious men are, almost everywhere, less encouraged than tolerated.

I believe history is a circle, made by men who don't learn from their mistakes.

You hated what we had done, and it had meant so much to me. I hated you after that.

Morals are in all countries the result of legislation and government they are not African or Asian or European: they are good or bad.

The spirit of humility is sweeter than honey, and those who nourish themselves with this honey produce sweet fruit.

I've no objection to morality, except that it's obsolete.

That's the great thing about having your friends around you. I've known these guys forever. I really enjoy their company just as people. You couldn't ask for a better work environment.

If you can’t out iterate someone who is trying to copy you, you’re toast anyway.

Productive work, love and thought are possible only if a person can be, when necessary, quiet and alone. To be able to listen to oneself is the necessary condition for relating oneself to others.

We are all better than we know. If only we can be brought to realise this, we may never be prepared to settle for anything less

I coined a word the other day, but I forgot what it was. It was a good one, it came to me in a dream.