When a mystery is too overpowering, one dare not disobey.

A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.

You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed.

I have lived a great deal among grown-ups. I have seen them intimately, close at hand. And that hasn’t much improved my opinion of them.

It is such a secret place, the land of tears.

But the conceited man did not hear him. Conceited people never hear anything but praise.

It is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important.

Well, I must endure the presence of a few caterpillars if I wish to become acquainted with the butterflies.

Sometimes, there is no harm in putting off a piece of work until another day.

The only things you learn are the things you tame

I did not know how to reach him, how to catch up with him... The land of tears is so mysterious.

There stood a young man who had the figure of a Greek athlete and the face of an English one...Just where he began to be beautiful the clothes started.

You know you’ve read a good book when you turn the last page and feel a little as if you have lost a friend.

The eternal sea of politics is best left to politicians.

Gain may be temporary and uncertain; but ever while you live, expense is constant and certain: and it is easier to build two chimneys than to keep one in fuel.

Little do women know what big ideas I have in my pants.

Haruhi: This story has everything but the kitchen sink in it.

Never imitate the eccentricities of genius, but toil after it in its truer flights. They are not so easy to follow, but they lead to higher regions.

The beloved does not drink a single drop of water without seeing His Face in the cup. Allah is He Who flows between the pericardium and the heart, just as the tears flow from the eyelids.

You need messiness and magic, serendipity and insanity. Creativity comes from time off, and time out.

If you're trying to please everyone, then you're not going to make anything that is honestly yours, I don't think, in the long run.