If it is worth doing, it is worth overdoing.
I desire to live in peace and to continue the life I have begun under the motto 'to live well you must live unseen'
The body is meant to be seen, not all covered up.
All that is not eternal is eternally out of date.
A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy.
The gentleman understands rightousness, the petty man understands interest.
Everything passes. Nobody gets anything for keeps. And that's how we've got to live.
The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.
To live is to be musical, starting with the blood dancing in your veins. Everything living has a rhythm. Do you feel your music?
Shame is an ornament to the young; a disgrace to the old.
We can allow satellites, planets, suns, universe, nay whole systems of universes, to be governed by laws, but the smallest insect, we wish to be created at once by special act.
Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show.
The nicest thing for me is sleep, then at least I can dream.
The reality of the building does not consist in the roof and walls, but in the space within to be lived in.
I've learned that even when I have pains, I don't have to be one.
Where there is love there is life.
Nothing in life is more remarkable than the unnecessary anxiety which we endure, and generally create ourselves.
Everything we do is infused with the energy with which we do it. If we're frantic, life will be frantic. If we're peaceful, life will be peaceful. And so our goal in any situation becomes inner peace.
We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.
Wrinkles should merely indicate where the smiles have been.
Life always waits for some crisis to occur before revealing itself at its most brilliant.