Do not wait for life. Do not long for it. Be aware, always and at every moment, that the miracle is in the here and now.

Everybody calls "clear" those ideas which have the same degree of confusion as his own.

Similarly the men who produce works of genius are not those who live in the most delicate atmosphere, whose conversation is most brilliant, or their culture broadest, but those who have had the power, ceasing in a moment to live only for themselves, to make use of their personality as of a mirror.

What we have not had to decipher, to elucidate by our own efforts, what was clear before we looked at it, is not ours. From ourselves comes only that which we drag forth from the obscurity which lies within us, that which to others is unknown.

It is the tragedy of other people that they are to us merely showcases for the very perishable collections of our own mind.

For neither our greatest fears nor our greatest hopes are beyond the limits of our strength--we are able in the end both to dominate the first and to achieve the second.

It is a mistake to speak of a bad choice in love, since, as soon as a choice exists, it can only be bad.