“Welcome everything that comes to you, but do not long for anything else.”

We should enjoy this summer, flower by flower, as if it were to be the last one we’ll see.

Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason.

Nothing is so silly as the expression of a man who is being complimented.

I can’t expect others to share my virtues. It’s good enough for me if they share my vices.

But can one still make resolutions when one is over forty? I live according to twenty-year-old habits.

God depends on us. It is through us that God is achieved.

Every instant of our lives is essentially irreplaceable: you must know this in order to concentrate on life.

I wished for nothing beyond her smile, and to walk with her thus, hand in hand, along a sun warmed, flower bordered path.

There are many things that seem impossible only so long as one does not attempt them.

The most gifted natures are perhaps also the most trembling.

Only fools don’t contradict themselves.

Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again.

Prejudices are the props of civilization.

Wisdom comes not from reason but from love.

Art begins with resistance – at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor.

Please do not understand me too quickly.

So much of modern politics is focused not on honest differences of policy but on personal attacks.

Can we be committed to the process of what we’re doing without being emotionally attached to the results of what we’re doing.

Be committed to the process without being emotionally attached to the results.

How, love and addiction can have similar strains – of attachment.

I am inclined to attach some importance to the new system of manufacturing; and venture to throw it out with the hope of its receiving a full discussion among those who are most interested in the subject.

I’m very attached to movie theaters and I love going to them. Nothing will ever replace that. It’s very romantic and beautiful. I used to want to live inside of one, with a bathtub, a bike and a bed, and just watch movies.

You try to get out there and live. I’ve always had good friends who’ve been very supportive and help make me feel good and grounded because I’ve never felt attached to the film industry.

When everyone at school is speaking one language, and a lot of your classmates’ parents also speak it, and you go home and see that your community is different -there is a sense of shame attached to that. It really takes growing up to treasure the specialness of being different.