How often it is that the angry man rages denial of what his inner self is telling him.
And this sensitivity will create new friendships for you - friendships with trees, with birds, with animals, with mountains, with rivers, with oceans, with stars. Life becomes richer as love grows.
Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you.
The object of the superior man is truth.
Love make us poets, and the approach of death should make us philosophers.
The heart has its reasons which reason knows not.
There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts: what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it.
Whatever you think the world is withholding from you, you are withholding from the world.
One new feature or fresh take can change everything.
If you place your head in a lion's mouth, then you cannot complain one day if he happens to bite it off.
The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
As the soft yield of water cleaves obstinate stone, So to yield with life solves the insolvable: To yield, I have learned, is to come back again.
Don't criticize what you don't understand, son. You never walked in that man's shoes.
Loneliness adds beauty to life. It puts a special burn on sunsets and makes night air smell better.
Wisdom begins at the end.
Desire is the very essence of man.
I am a lover of truth, a worshipper of freedom, a celebrant at the altar of language and purity and tolerance.
Destiny is not a passive agent that lies in the lap of the Gods, but is an active instrument that lies in your own hands to shape as you will.
Early to bed and early to rise, Makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.
Act as if the maxim of your action were to become through your will a general natural law
It is better to be looked over than overlooked.