what is unreasonable is irrefutable.

It is only in sorrow bad weather masters us; in joy we face the storm and defy it.

Human relations are built on feeling, not on reason or knowledge. And feeling is not an exact science; like all spiritual qualities, it has the vagueness of greatness about it.

Kindness is always fashionable.

It is always the simple that produces the marvelous.

The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.

The great difference between voyages rests not with the ships, but with the people you meet on them.

Time is a very precious gift- so precious that it is only given to us moment by moment.

All changes are more or less tinged with melancholy, for what we are leaving behind is part of ourselves.

Forethought spares afterthought.

Mediocrity is always in a rush; but whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing with consideration. For genius is nothing more nor less than doing well what anyone can do badly.

we can only flourish when we are truly grounded in self. keep that in mind when journeying.

And I thought to myself how those fast little articles forget everything, everything, while we, old lovers, treasure every inch of their nymphancy

There is nothing more thrilling in this world, I think, than having a child that is yours, and yet is mysteriously a stranger.

Freedom is a very great reality, but it means above all things, freedom from lies.

I'd never buy something, even if it's a great brand, that is a competitor to something I already own; that's insane.

You have to become a master or mistress of your mind.

Then, at some point, you get identified with certain things.

I'm often called obsessive, but I don't think I am any more than anyone else.

My definition of beauty is something between extremely ugly and extremely fantastic.

Is the human condition not defined by an endless struggle to control the ego's subterfuges?