The self is merely the lens through which we see others and the world.

I believe that men are generally still a little afraid of the dark though the witches are all hung, and Christianity and candles have been introduced.

The one who travels like a lover searching for a new passion is suddenly blessed with new eyes, new ears, new senses.

From the backstabbing co-worker to the meddling sister-in-law, you are in charge of how you react to the people and events in your life. You can either give negativity power over your life or you can choose happiness instead. Take control and choose to focus on what is important in your life. Those who cannot live fully often become destroyers of life.

There are books which we read early in life, which sink into our consciousness and seem to disappear without leaving a trace. And then one day we find, in some summing-up of our life and put attitudes towards experience, that their influence has been enormous.

I cannot concentrate all my friendship on any single one of my friends because no one is complete enough in himself.

A big enough artist, I say, can eat anything, must eat everything and then alchemize it. Only the feeble writer is afraid of expansion.