what are we all sent into the world for, but to be of use to each other?

Why is it that fools always have the instinct to hunt out the unpleasant secrets of life, and the hardiness to mention them?

It is always so, every pleasure comes exactly half an hour too late - Life! Life!

I like a good murder that can't be found out. That is, of course it is very shocking, but I like to hear about it.

There is nothing so catching as refinement.

People may go on talking for ever of the jealousies of pretty women; but for real genuine, hard-working envy, there is nothing like an ugly woman with a taste for admiration.

Attract and get attracted to that which is your ultimate purpose.

My handbag turned into a diaper bag for the chronically ill.

It had been an embarrassing moment, like the one you get when you realize for the first time that you have what it takes to become an accountant.

All statements about the hydrides of boron earlier than 1912, when Stock began to work upon them, are untrue.

To make a photograph is already the first artificial act.

It is what is painted between the outlines that makes the difference between merely competent painting and really meaningful art.

I'm quite a neurotic thinker, quite an adrenalized person. But after meditation, I felt this beautiful serenity and selfless connection.

Dostoevsky was the first to reveal to us this teeming multiplicity of emotions, this complexity of our spiritual universe.

Keep this straight in your head: we are not fighting an alien invasion - we're leading a revolution. And today the battle begins.

If I have accomplished anything good, then it's mainly because I've been driven by the need to know whether I can accomplish things I'm not sure I have the capacity for.