...every literature, in its main lines, reflects the chief characteristics of the people for whom, and about whom, it is written.

There are two ways of spreading light: to be The candle or the mirror that reflects it.

The desire for symmetry, for balance, for rhythm in form as well as in sound, is one of the most inveterate of human instincts.

To visit Morocco is still like turning the pages of some illuminated Persian manuscript all embroidered with bright shapes and subtle lines.

One can remain alive ... if one is unafraid of change, insatiable in intellectual curiosity interested in big things and happy in small ways.

If only we'd stop trying to be happy, we could have a pretty good time.

The real loneliness is living among all these kind people who only ask one to pretend!

Nothing is more perplexing to a man than the mental process of a woman who reasons her emotions.

One of the great things about travel is you find out how many good, kind people there are.

Set wide the window. Let me drink the day.

Life is always either; a tight -rope or a feather-bed . — Give me the tightrope.

Art is an expression of inner perception as an outer reality.

Mankind must live in a harmony with one another in order to have a peaceful world.

Oh! Let us never never doubt What nobody is sure about.

But I don't like to, tell people how old I am. I like that to be a mystery.

Expiring for love is beautiful but stupid.

With thee goes Thy husband, him to follow thou art bound; Where he abides, think there thy native soil.

Psychoanalysts are father confessors who like to listen to the sins of the father as well.

Fahrenheit 9/11: The temperature where freedom burns!

In a free society, government has the responsibility of protecting us from others, but not from ourselves.

Knowledge about life is one thing; effective occupation of a place in life, with its dynamic currents passing through your being, is another.