Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.

I have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined, and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road.

In terms of an identity, an identity reflects an individuality, by definition. And, if there is a quality present, it is recognizable and it can be named. If you can't name it, it means you don't recognize it.

Delay always breeds danger. To protract a great design is often to ruin it.

You’ll miss the best things if you keep your eyes shut.

I've always had an obligation to creation, above all.

I am not ashamed to confess that I am ignorant of what I do not know.

Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.

I like to think of myself at home in the armchair, writing, smoking and occasionally wandering down the shop.

People create stories create people; or rather stories create people create stories.

The death of a beautiful woman, is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world.

Every beauty which is seen here by persons of perception resembles more than anything else that celestial source from which we all are come.

You always admire what you really don't understand.

It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself.

Each soul is potentially divine.

Even if you are divine, you don't disdain male consorts.

The secret of being a bore is to tell everything.

Of all the things I`ve lost I miss my mind the most.

There is only one way... to get anybody to do anything. And that is by making the other person want to do it.

One must judge men not by their opinions, but by what their opinions have made of them.

Human decency is not derived from religion. It precedes it.