The behavior of a human being in sexual matters is often a prototype for the whole of his other modes of reaction in life.

When making your choice in life, do not neglect to live.

All that happens means something; nothing you do is ever insignificant.

How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours.

You can find the entire cosmos lurking in its least remarkable objects.

The difficulty we have in accepting responsibility for our behaviour lies in the desire to avoid the pain of the consequences of that behaviour

Luxury is not a necessity to me, but beautiful and good things are.

Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.

Life does not need to mutilate itself in order to be pure.

I can't help thinking that there are only one or two ways of being brought into this world, but there are so many fucked-up ways of leaving it.

Boys will be boys. And even that wouldn't matter if only we could prevent girls from being girls.

It is easier to influence strong than weak characters in life.

Insanity in individuals is rare - but in groups, parties, nations, and epochs, it is the rule.

We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.

Life is made up of marble and mud.

Crude classifications and false generalizations are the curse of organized life.

Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.

To forget is the secret of eternal youth. One grows old only through memory. There's much too little forgetting.

When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another.

When all life is seen as divine, everyone grows wings.

Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding... And could you keep your heart in wonder at the daily miracles of your life, your pain would not seem less wondrous than your joy