Do not erase the designs the child makes in the soft wax of his inner life.

Landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed.

Don't own so much clutter that you will be relieved to see your house catch fire.

A wise girl kisses but doesn't love, listens but doesn't believe, and leaves before she is left.

Being a hero is about the shortest-lived profession on earth.

Life does not need to mutilate itself in order to be pure.

Its not the men in your life that matters, its the life in your men.

The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.

We can never obtain peace in the outer world until we make peace with ourselves.

We all learn lessons in life. Some stick, some don't. I have always learned more from rejection and failure than from acceptance and success.

Diamonds are a girls best friend.

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

Those who want to live, let them fight, and those who do not want to fight in this world of eternal struggle do not deserve to live.

But I don't want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin.

I would rather live in a world where my life is surrounded by mystery than live in a world so small that my mind could comprehend it.

One day you will ask me which is more important? My life or yours? I will say mine and you will walk away not knowing that you are my life.

The future is the shape of things to come.

Just as modern motorways have no room for ox-carts or wandering pedestrians, so modern society has little place for lives and ways that are too eccentric.

Everything existing in the universe is the fruit of chance and necessity.

Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.

And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.