While we're living, we need to get over ourselves and accept others if we want to enchant people.

Want to change the world? Upset the status quo? This takes more than run-of-the-mill relationships. You need to make people dream the same dream that you do.

If you don't toot your own horn, don't complain that there's no music.

Let yourself be enchanted in small ways.

Don't even think of arguing with me. I'm an old woman and if you fight me about it, it could give me a heart attack.

There was hardly an eminent writer in Paris who was unacquainted with the inside of the Conciergerie or the Bastille.

Shadow-making happens in families and makes us who we are. It leads to shadow-work, which makes us who we can become.

If we want to change something, we must begin with understanding. But if we want to love something, we must begin with acceptance.

I'm really worried about my girlfriend's morals ... she has NEXT written on her knickers.

Beauty,’ Brimstone had scoffed once. ‘Humans are fools for it. As helpless as moths who hurl themselves at fire.

In the actual world--the painful kingdom of time and place--dwell care, and canker, and fear. With thought, with the ideal, is immortal hilarity, the rose of joy.

But those words were only the middle of the story. There was a beginning here, too.

Palestinians are becoming religiously fanatic. Israel is becoming irrelevant. They do it for religious purpose, fanatic, they want to conquer the Middle East under the command of the Iranians.

We should talk over the lessons of the day, or lose them in Music, Chess, or the merriments of our family companions.