I am not a saint, unless you think of a saint as a sinner who keeps on trying.

The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.

If a dog will not come to you after having looked you in the face, you should go home and examine your conscience.

The mind is a superb instrument if used rightly. Used wrongly, however, it becomes very destructive. To put it more accurately... you usually don't use it at all. It uses you.

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.

The thing I lose patience with the most is the clock. Its hands move too fast

The mind that finds its way to wild places is the poet's; but the mind that never finds its way back is the lunatic's.

Modesty and conscientiousness receive their reward only in novels. In life they are exploited and then shoved aside.

A friend doesn't go on a diet because you are fat.

I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.

There's nothing in the world so demoralizing as money.

Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't.

The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.

Passion goes, Boredom remains.

With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.

Be that self which one truly is.

God creates, I do not create. I assemble and I steal everywhere to do it - from what I see, from what the dancers can do, from what others do.

When I had nothing to lose, I had everything. When I stopped being who I am, I found myself.

If one is to be called a liar, one may as well make an effort to deserve the name.

Tradition becomes our security, and when the mind is secure it is in decay.

There's no such thing as perfect writing, just like there's no such thing as perfect despair.