The best way of forgetting how you think you feel is to concentrate on what you know you know.

The essence of wisdom is to know when to be doing, and when it's useless even to try

I knew that I had turned my world back to cinders, sunk my lovely ship with my own stupid, wicked hands.

The gods only go with you if you put yourself in their path. And that takes courage.

To remember love after long sleep; to turn again to poetry after a year in the market place, or to youth after resignation to drowsy and stiffening age; to remember what once you thought life could hold, after telling over with muddied and calculating fingers what it has offered; this is music, made after long silence. The soul flexes its wings, and, clumsy as any fledgling, tries the air again

I sometimes think it's a mistake to have been happy when one was a child. One should always want to go on, not back.

Take love easy, as the leaves grow on the trees.