Wisdom consists in rising superior both to madness and to common sense, and is lending oneself to the universal illusion without becoming its dupe.

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.

It's strange how time can make a place shrink, make its strangeness ordinary.

The noise around me blurs, and all I can focus on is his lips and breath and presence.

I think the fall from the farmer to the operative as great and memorable as that from the man to the farmer.

If you are afraid of dying then you are afraid of living.

The weak may be joked out of anything but their weakness.

And I believe what I believe / Is what makes me what I am / I did not make it, no it is making me / It is the very truth of God and not / The invention of any man.

Document, evaluate, focus, test.

I am an ordinary person who has been blessed with extraordinary opportunities and experiences. Today is one of those experiences.

They're [haters] just building you up to knock you down. But for me, they haven't.

You are the smartest children i know. You just don't beleive it.