You ask me what life is. That's like asking what a carrot is. A carrot is a carrot, and there's nothing more to know.

Man is what he believes.

People should be beautiful in every way - in their faces, in the way they dress, in their thoughts, and in their innermost selves.

Instructing in cures, therapists always recommend that "each case be individualized." If this advice is followed, one becomes persuaded that those means recommended in textbooks as the best, means perfectly appropriate for the template case, turn out to be completely unsuitable in individual cases.

In displaying the psychology of your characters, minute particulars are essential. God save us from vague generalizations!

Write, write, write-till your fingers break.

...and with a burning pain in my heart I realized how unnecessary, how petty, and how deceptive all that had hindered us from loving was. I understood that when you love you must either, in your reasonings about that love, start from what is highest, from what is more important than happiness or unhappiness, sin or virtue in their accepted meaning, or you must not reason at all.