Thinking is wonderful, but the experience is even more wonderful.

Wisdom is to have dreams big enough not to lose sight when we pursue them.

Suffering is one very long moment. We cannot divide it by seasons. We can only record its moods, and chronicle their return. With us time itself does not progress. It revolves. It seems to circle round one center of pain.

The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.

The only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.

People say sometimes that Beauty is superficial. That may be so. But at least it is not so superficial as Thought is. To me, Beauty is the wonder of wonders. It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances. The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.

A grand passion is the privelege of people who have nothing to do.