It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think our present existence, as a dream.

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

Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have poisoned the fountain.

Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.

I've had a perfectly wonderful evening, but this wasn't it.

His modesty amounts to deformity.

A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.

Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.

Advice to intellectuals: let no-one represent you.

In the increasingly convincing darkness the words become palpable, like a fruit that is too beautiful to eat.

When the dog looks at you, the dog is not thinking what kind of a person you are. The dog is not judging you.

Moonlight is sculpture.

Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.

Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not.

The destruction of the past is perhaps the greatest of all crimes.

When it is not in our power to determine what is true, we ought to follow what is most probable.

You sort of start thinking anything's possible if you've got enough nerve.

Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.

The day of individual happiness has passed

A lot of people don't realize that depression is an illness. I don't wish it on anyone, but if they would know how it feels, I swear they would think twice before they just shrug it.

I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of Beauty.