When everything has its proper place in our minds, we are able to stand in equilibrium with the rest of the world.

Tell me what you feel in your room when the full moon is shining in upon you and your lamp is dying out, and I will tell you how old you are, and I shall know if you are happy.

There is no respect for others without humility in one's self.

Learn to... be what you are, and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not.

Women wish to be loved without a why or a wherefore; not because they are pretty, or good, or well-bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves.

Destiny has two ways of crushing us - by refusing our wishes and by fulfilling them.

In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past

In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past - a pious guardian of some affection, of which the object has disappeared.

Analysis kills spontaneity. The grain once ground into flour springs and germinates no more.

Truth is not only violated by falsehood; it may be equally outraged by silence.

You desire to know the art of living, my friend? It is contained in one phrase: make use of suffering.

Nothing in this world compares to the comfort and security of having someone just hold your hand.

I like the smell of my Grandma's soap - I used to sit in the bath and eat it.

I used to be a fighter and I'm used to taking weight off.

A world state which which embraces the entire globe and all of humanity cannot exist. The political world is a pluriverse, not a universe.

Yet since the 1950s, little has been done to prepare for our country's current or future energy needs.

I think mortality makes you live a fuller existence. When I was a kid I was scared of death, and maybe that's what made me desperate to get the most out of life.

Once you put human life in human hands, you have started on a slippery slope that knows no boundaries.

Pleasure alone makes existence worthwhile. A pleasure-seeker has a difficult time parting from life.

The issue is not whether or not you have that power, the issue is whether or not you use it.

Our purpose in founding the city was not to make any one class in it surpassingly happy, but to make the city as a whole as happyas possible.