“It is easy to live for others, everybody does. I call on you to live for yourself.”

Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.

Life is a series of surprises and would not be worth taking or keeping if it were not.

Be not the slave of your own past – plunge into the sublime seas, dive deep, and swim far, so you shall come back with new self-respect, with new power, and with an advanced experience that shall explain and overlook the old.

The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.

For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else.

Be silly. Be honest. Be kind.

All I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen.

When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.

Do the thing you fear and the death of fear is certain.

For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.

Nature and Books belong to the eyes that see them.

When friendships are real, they are not glass threads or frost work, but the solidest things we can know.

It is easy in the world to live after the world’s opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.

Many eyes go through the meadow, but few see the flowers in it.

A great man is always willing to be little.

Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us, or we find it not.

Seek to learn constantly while you live; do not wait in the faith that old age by itself will bring wisdom.

Memories should be sharp when one has nothing else to live for.

Each others’ lives are our best textbooks.

Neither woman nor man lives by work, or love, alone … The human self defines itself and grows through love and work: All psychology before and after Freud boils down to that.

I never set out to write a book to change women’s lives, to change history. It’s like, ‘Who, me?’ Yes, me. I did it. And I’m not that different from other women. Maybe my power and glory was that I could speak my truth as a woman and it was the truth of every woman.

Even after his death, Tupac is as powerful as he was when he was living.

I do not worship the devil. But magic does intrigue me. Magic of all kinds. I bought Crowley’s house to go up and write in. The thing is, I just never get up that way. Friends live there now.

It’s terrible to allow conventional habits to gain a hold on a whole household; to eat, sleep and live by clock ticks.