Those who are easily shocked should be shocked more often.

If you have been sunned through and through like an apricot on a wall from your earliest days, you are oversensitive to any withdrawal of heat.

The only creatures that are evolved enough to convey pure love are dogs and infants.

When someone leaves, it's because someone else is about to arrive.

Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

Live simply so others may simply live.

Never, ever underestimate the power of 'Id Like that.

There is also this benefit in brag: that the speaker is unconsciously expressing his own ideal. Humor him by all means, draw it all out, and hold him to it.

To be able to look back upon ones life in satisfaction, is to live twice.

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

As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.

If I'm honest I have to tell you I still read fairy-tales and I like them best of all.

Only he who accepts clashes and conflicts in life, loves life.

Symbols are the imaginative signposts of life.

If I get married, I want to be very married.

History is the devil's scripture.

Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose the former and have seen no reason to change.

Life has a certain flavour for those who have fought and risked all that the sheltered and protected can never experience.

Sow a thought and you get an act; Sow an act and you get a habit; Sow a habit and you get a character; Sow a character and you get a destiny.

Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.

We fear our highest possibility (as well as our lowest one). We are generally afraid to become that which we can glimpse in our most perfect moments.