“To do good things in the world, first you must know who you are and what gives meaning to your life.”

Truth never hurts the teller.

Rejoice that man is hurled, From change to change unceasingly, His soul’s wings never furled!

As is your sort of mind, So is your sort of search: You will find what you desire.

You call for faith: I show you doubt, to prove that faith exists. The more of doubt, the stronger faith, I say, If faith o’ercomes doubt.

Grow old with me. The best is yet to be. The last of life for which the first was made.

Why stay on the earth except to grow.

Ah, love, – you are my unutterable blessing…..I am in full sunshine now.

Where the heart lies, let the brain lie also.

I walked a mile with Pleasure; She chattered all the way. But left me none the wiser For all she had to say. I walked a mile with Sorrow And ne’er a word said she; But oh, the things I learned from her When Sorrow walked with me!

There are three ways of learning golf: by study, which is the most wearisome; by imitation, which is the most fallacious; and by experience, which is the most bitter.

Motherhood: All love begins and ends there.

Love, hope, fear, faith – these make humanity; These are its sign and note and character.

Escape me? Never, beloved! While I am I, and you are you.

A pretty woman’s worth some pains to see.

Who knows most, doubts most; entertaining hope means recognizing fear.

What’s a man’s age? He must hurry more, that’s all; Cram in a day, what his youth took a year to hold.

Suffering — how divine it is, how misunderstood! We owe to it all that is good in us, all that gives value to life; we owe to it pity, we owe to it courage, we owe to it all the virtues.

All a woman needs is a good bath, clean clothes, and for her hair to be combed. These things she can do herself. I very seldom go to the hairdresser, but when I do, I just marvel.

One must learn to love, and go through a good deal of suffering to get to it, and the journey is always towards the other soul.

There is no reason why good cannot triumph as often as evil. The triumph of anything is a matter of organization. If there are such things as angels, I hope that they are organized along the lines of the Mafia.

A good painting to me has always been like a friend. It keeps me company, comforts and inspires.

Books. Cats. Life is good.

One of the most fascinating lessons I’ve absorbed about life is that the struggle is good.

Be a good animal,true to your instincts.