You can transmute love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can never pull it out of you.

Spoon feeding, in the long run, teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.

We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.

One person with passion is better than forty people merely interested.

Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown

Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown. Through them we pass out into adventure and sunshine, to them, alas! we return.

I am sure that if the mothers of various nations could meet, there would be no more wars.

Ideas are fatal to caste.

Pathos, piety, courage, they exist, but are identical, and so is filth. Everything exists, nothing has value.

The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.

One always tends to overpraise a long book, because one has got through it.

I find myself becoming increasingly nostalgic for the past, but after all I suppose that is the only thing one can be nostalgic about.

It has become necessary for me to have this woman, so as to save myself from the ridicule of being in love with her: for to what lengths will a man not be driven by thwarted desire?

If you choose not to pursue your dreams, you'll still be a part of a dream - only it will be someone else's.

I also believe that if we're serious about change, we need to have a real discussion about public financing for congressional elections.

People think you have to go through a lot of changes to become a soul singer, You just have to go through life.

It was like we were all so busy trying to be happy or saying we were happy, but underneath there was nothing but bitterness, the kind that could only be bled out in ink, in unspoken word.

Confidence is a lot of this game or any game. If you don't think you can, you won't.

People relate to fighters so much because fighting reflects life.

I don't spend a lot of time online.

See what a ready tongue suspicion hath!