When I tried to draw near, you dissolved into air before my lips could touch you...

Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness.

The cigar is the perfect complement to an elegant lifestyle.

We cannot tear out a single page of our life, but we can throw the whole book in the fire.

Let us accept truth, even when it surprises us and alters our views.

Simplicity is the most difficult thing to secure in this world; it is the last limit of experience and the last effort of genius.

It is a mistake to regard age as a downhill grade toward dissolution. The reverse is true. As one grows older, one climbs with surprising strides.

The trade of authorship is a violent, and indestructible obsession.

You may impose silence upon me, but you can not prevent me from thinking.

Butterflies are but flowers that blew away one sunny day when Nature was feeling at her most inventive and fertile.

The intellect seeks, the heart finds.

The shoddy work of despair, the pointless work of pride, equally betray Creation. They are wastes of life.

What will I do when you're gone?" said Alasdair, with a faltering voice.Bryeison placed a hand on his shoulder and said, with raging tranquility, "Do what is good and what is right.

Stupidity is the chlorine that cleans out the gene pool.

We must be what we wish our children to be. They will form their characters from ours.

To the voices in our heads that tell us we aren't good enough: do be quiet.

How I feel is cheap and used, dirty and humiliated. Dirty and tricked and thrown away.

In Buddhism balance is the most difficult thing, because it is overlooked.

Time makes ancient good uncouth.

There are. intangible realities which float near us, formless and without words; realities which no one has thought out, and which are excluded for lack of interpreters.

The courage to say no, the courage to say yes. Decisions do determine Destiny.