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

Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.

It seldom happens that any felicity comes so pure as not to be tempered and allayed by some mixture of sorrow.

Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.

Parents are usually more careful to bestow knowledge on their children rather than virtue, the art of speaking well rather than doing well; but their manners should be of the greatest concern.

One must judge men not by their opinions, but by what their opinions have made of them.

An idea is salvation by imagination

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

Worry is the interest paid by those who borrow trouble.

After all, science is essentially international, and it is only through lack of the historical sense that national qualities have been attributed to it.

When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor.

I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.

Each soul is potentially divine.

The battle for women's rights has been largely won.

Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.

The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.

I meant what I said and I said what I meant.

I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.

The two offices of memory are collection and distribution.

If you never stop when you wave goodbye you just might find, if you give it time, you will wave hello again...

I have great faith in fools; self-confidence my friends call it.