“Poetry is to hold judgment on your soul.”

Labor and trouble one can always get through alone, but it takes two to be glad.

What’s to become of the morally sound? Left out in the cold, I suppose. We must heal the sick.

There is always a risk in being alive, and if you are more alive, there is more risk.

The strong must learn to be lonely.

There are two kinds of spiritual law, two kinds of conscience, one in man and another, altogether different, in woman. They do not understand each other; but in practical life the woman is judged by man’s law, as though she were not a woman but a man.

Almost everyone who has gone to the bad early in life has had a deceitful mother.

Marriage is something you have to give your whole mind to.

The majority never has right on its side.

Really to sin you have to be serious about it.

I have other duties equally sacred, Duties to myself.

It is not by spectacular achievements that man can be transformed, but by will.

I must make up my mind which is right – society or I.

To see one’s goal and to drive toward it, steeling one’s heart, is most uplifting.

What’s a man’s first duty? The answer is brief: To be himself.

Happiness is worth a daring deed; we are both free if we but will it, and then the game is won.

The devil is compromise.

In a basic way, acceptance is seeing clearly what’s happening and holding it with kindness. This is a radical antidote to the suffering of judging mind.

You don’t hold place for everyone’s shit.

I hold that it is only when we can prove everything we assert that we understand perfectly the thing under consideration.

Success is not the measure of a man but a triumph over those who choose to hold him back.

Globalisation is not something that we can hold off or turn off. It is the economic equivalent of a force of nature, like wind or water.

When you get into a tight place, and everything goes against you till it seems as if you couldn’t hold on a minute longer, never give up then, for that ‘s just the place and time that the tide’ll turn.

For God’s sake hold your tongue, and let me love.

I was born with scoliosis. I have a double curvature of the spine, and it’s forced me to use a wheelchair because the disease has really taken hold. It really saddens me that I can’t ride.