“Never write anything that does not give you great pleasure. Emotion is easily transferred from the writer to the reader.”

How many people make themselves abstract to appear profound. The most useful part of abstract terms are the shadows they create to hide a vacuum.

Space is the stature of God.

Those who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they love the truth.

The mind conceives with pain, but it brings forth with delight.

All are born to observe order, but few are born to establish it.

You will not find poetry anywhere unless you bring some of it with you.

The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.

Love and fear. Everything the father of a family says must inspire one or the other.

To teach is to learn twice.

Pleasures are always children, pains always have wrinkles.

The passions of the young are vices in the old.

Kindness is loving people more than they deserve.

Without the spiritual world the material world is a disheartening enigma.

Logic works, metaphysics contemplates.

The direction of the mind is more important than its progress.

The Bible remained for me a book of books, still divine – but divine in the sense that all great books are divine which teach men how to live righteously.

I also doubt a man can give really clear reasons for anything.

You can ruin anything if you focus at it.

Because I grew up in the 60s girls were not allowed to do anything. As I’ve gotten older and realized that women can do things like that I thought, ‘Why not? Now’s the time.’

I knew if I ate anything of hers again, it would lkely tell me the same message: help me,

Whatever obstacles you face, remember you can get through anything if you want to badly enough.

Doing anything when you’re bored is very very boring. Anyway, doing nothing is the point of being bored.

The things that stress me out haven’t changed. But I don’t wanna lose anything. So I thought that at least I would change. I’m lucky…that I’m afraid of losing something.

It took us five hours to reach Tokyo, but I was really happy. I kept talking about myself, and didn’t hear anything about Nana. But now that I know you better; I know you wouldn’t say anything.