You've got to tell the world how to treat you. If the world tells you how you are going to be treated, you are in trouble.

People who shut their eyes to reality simply invite their own destruction, and anyone who insists on remaining in a state on innocence long after that innocence is dead turns himself into a monster.

Passion is not friendly. It is arrogant, superbly contemptuous of all that is not itself, and, as they very definition of passion implies the impulse to freedom, it has a might intimidiating power. It contains a challenge. It contains an unspeakable hope.

This world is white no longer, and it will never be white again.

To defend oneself against a fear is simply to insure that one will, one day, be conquered by it; fears must be faced.

Love him and let him love you. Do you think anything else under heaven really matters?

I am certainly convinced that it is one of the greatest impulses of mankind to arrive at something higher than a natural state.