Wit lies in the likeness of things that are different, and in the difference of things that are alike.

Goethe has made a remark upon the perfectability of the human mind, which is full of sagacity: It is always advancing, but in a spiral line.

Love is the symbol of eternity.

Enthusiasm signifies 'God in us.'

Prayer is the life of the soul.

The greatest happiness is to transform one's feelings into action.

As we grow in wisdom, we pardon more freely.

In matters of the heart, nothing is true except the improbable.

The desire of the man is for the woman, but the desire of the woman is for the desire of the man.

Search for the truth is the noblest occupation of man; its publication is a duty.

We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.

Don’t waste your youthful and active days on employment

No one has greater love than this, to lay down one’s life for one’s friends (John 15:13)

There's something more surprising than becoming a bestseller, and that's receiving messages of hate by other fellow authors.

Togetherness is beating up an empty elevator.

In time you will see that you were exactly where you were supposed to be.

My writing, I am prepared to think, may be a substitute for something I have been born without - a so-called normal relation to society. My books are my relation to society.

It is often the case that laws must change before fears about change dissipate.

There are too many games now where there's too much structure and not enough of the chaos.

Women were wearing the men's button-downs so I added men's touches into women's shirts. They're basically the same - just sexier. They're reshaped to the female body.

The old brown hen and the old blue sky, Between the two we live and die The broken cartwheel on the hill.