"Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself."
"Him that I love, I wish to be free - even from me."
"Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself. Love possesses not nor would it be possessed; For love is sufficient unto love."
"Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born."
"Sadness is but a wall between two gardens."
"Love works miracles every day: such as weakening the strong, and strengthening the weak; making fools of the wise, and wise men of fools; favoring the passions, destroying reason, and, in a word, turning everything topsy-turvy."
"To be desperate is to discover strength. We die of comfort and by conflict live."
"Far away in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead."
"During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk. When once the risk has really been taken, then the greatest danger is to risk too much."
"Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence."
"Conditions for creativity are to be puzzled; to concentrate; to accept conflict and tension; to be born everyday; to feel a sense of self."
"Strange that we all defend our wrongs with more vigor than we do our rights."
"Think, In mounting higher,<BR>The angels would press on us, and aspire<BR>To drop some golden orb of perfect song<BR>Into our deep, dear silence."
"Have regular hours for work and play; make each day both useful and pleasant, and prove that you understand the worth of time by employing it well. Then youth will be delightful, old age will bring few regrets, and life will become a beautiful success."
"It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations."
"For to whom so ever I do good they harm the most."
"As a rule, what is out of sight disturbs men's minds more seriously than what they see."
"The aim of sadism is to transform a man into a thng, something animate into something inanimate, since by complete and absolute control the living loses one essential quality of life-freedom."
"The successful revolutionary is a statesman, the unsuccessful one a criminal."
"It is because honesty will soon be scarce that we must use it to deceive the deceivers."
"In one drop of water are found all the secrets of all the oceans."
"Sadness is but a wall between two gardens."
"What is allowed us is disagreeable, what is denied us causes us intense desire."
"Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother."
"It is easier to keep half a dozen lovers guessing than to keep one lover after he has stopped guessing."
"To be able to look back upon ones life in satisfaction, is to live twice."
"Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common-sense."
"A woman who thinks she is intelligent demands the same rights as man. An intelligent woman gives up."
"I am indeed rich, since my income is superior to my expense, and my expense is equal to my wishes."
"Only the weak are cruel. Gentleness can only be expected from the strong."
"The best of men is he who blushes when you praise him and remains silent when you defame him."
"When one is out of touch with oneself, one cannot touch others."
"We live in a world in which we need to share responsibility. It's easy to say 'It's not my child, not my community, not my world, not my problem.' Then there are those who see the need and respond. I consider those people my heroes."
"Man is the only animal that can be bored."
"In the eternal scheme of things, this evening is as brief as the twinkling of an eye yet such twinklings is what eternity is made of."
"Music is the language of the spirit. It opens the secret of life bringing peace, abolishing strife."
"My true friends have always given me that supreme proof of devotion ... a spontaneous aversion for the man I loved."
"The true and the false speak the same language."
"Where so many hours have been spent in convincing myself that I am right, is there not some reason to fear I may be wrong?"
"Courage conquers all things."
"When, like me, one has nothing in oneself one hopes for everything from another."
"I have never agreed with my other self wholly. The truth of the matter seems to lie between us."
"The lights of stars that were extinguished ages ago still reaches us. So it is with great men who died centuries ago, but still reach us with the radiations of their personalities."
"Words are more powerful than perhaps anyone suspects, and once deeply ingrained in a child's mind, they are not easily eradicated."
"The reality of the other person lies not in what he reveals to you but in what he cannot reveal to you. Therefore, if you would understand him, listen not to what he says but rather to what he does not say."
"To hope means to be ready at every moment for that which is not yet born, and yet not become desperate if there is no birth in our lifetime."
"If faith cannot be reconciled with rational thinking, it has to be eliminated as an anachronistic remnant of earlier stages of culture and replaced by science dealing with facts and theories which are intelligible and can be validated."
"Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage."
"Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself. Love possesses not nor would it be possessed; For love is sufficient unto love."
"Friendship is always a sweet responsibility; never an opportunity."