“Who knows, my God, but that the universe is not one vast sea of compassion actually, the veritable holy honey, beneath all this show of personality and cruelty?”

I promise I shall never give up, and that I’ll die yelling and laughing, and that until then I’ll rush around this world I insist is holy and pull at everyone’s lapel and make them confess to me and to all.

Don’t drink to get drunk. Drink to enjoy life.

All of life is a foreign country.

The silence was an intense roar.

This is the story of America. Everybody’s doing what they think they’re supposed to do.

But, outside of being a sweet little girl, she was awfully dumb and capable of doing horrible things.

The best teacher is experience and not through someone’s distorted point of view.

My aunt once said that the world would never find peace until men fell at their women’s feet and asked for forgiveness.

It’s good-bye. But we lean forward to the next crazy venture beneath the skies.

Practice kindness all day to everybody and you will realize you’re already in heaven now.

There was nothing to talk about anymore. The only thing to do was go.

No man should go through life without once experiencing healthy, even bored solitude in the wilderness, finding himself depending solely on himself and thereby learning his true and hidden strength.

Because in the end, you won’t remember the time you spent working in the office or mowing your lawn. Climb that goddamn mountain.

Don’t tell them too much about your soul. They’re waiting for just that.

He had no place he could stay in without getting tired of it and because there was nowhere to go but everywhere, keep rolling under the stars.

Genius gives birth, talent delivers.

The deeper the pain that you have gone through, the more compassion you are capable of feeling.

I believe in continuing to put love and kindness and compassion and art into the world.

I just have a desire not to judge and view things compassionately.

Those who are happiest are those who do the most for others.

Be as kind to yourself as you are to others.

Compassion will cure more sins than condemnation.

Weakness is something we don’t like to admit we have. We hold it against people, until we experience it, and then we feel more compassion for it.

Woman is closer to angels than man because she knows how to mingle an infinite tenderness with the most absolute compassion.