Pedestals are always lonely.

Nothing in the world was ever built without a dream at the beginning.

After the door of a woman's heart has once swung on its silent hinges, a man thinks he can prop it open with a brick and go away and leave it.

It seems to take a lifetime for us to learn that wisdom consists largely in a graceful acceptance of things that do not immediately concern us.

... the song of the world is all of love.

Fortunately age does not affect literature. After a man is dead, he may continue in the business and often rank higher than his living competitors.

Impermanence is the very essence of joy-the drop of bitterness that enables one to perceive the sweet.