“It is a sign of great inner insecurity to be hostile to the unfamiliar.”

Love men and women not for their strength but their softness, not for their fullness but their hunger, not for their plenty but their need.

The secret of joy is the mastery of pain.

You can either give negativity power over your life or you can choose happiness instead.

Had I not created my whole world, I would certainly have died in other people’s.

If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don’t write, because our culture has no use for it.

We don’t have a language for the senses. Feelings are images, sensations are like musical sounds.

The enemy of a love is never outside, it’s not a man or woman, it’s what we lack in ourselves.

Life is a full circle, widening until it joins the circle motions of the infinite.

In chaos, there is fertility.

There are many ways to be free. One of them is to transcend reality by imagination, as I try to do.

You cannot save people, you can only love them.

It was while helping others to be free that I gained my own freedom.

Luxury is not a necessity to me, but beautiful and good things are.

What is love but acceptance of the other, whatever he is.

What everyone forgets is that passion is not merely a heightened sensual fusion but a way of life which produces, as in the mystics, an ecstatic awareness of the whole of life.

I must be a mermaid, Rango. I have no fear of depths and a great fear of shallow living.

To be a great autocrat you must be a great barbarian.

The Great Architect of the universe built it of good firm stuff.

The discovery of America was the occasion of the greatest outburst of cruelty and reckless greed known in history.

Pasteur will be celebrated almost as a God-like figure. This is when the moon completes her great cycle, but by other rumors, he shall be dishonored.

It contributes greatly towards a man’s moral and intellectual health, to be brought into habits of companionship with individuals unlike himself, who care little for his pursuits, and whose sphere and abilities he must go out of himself to appreciate.

Writing is a great comfort to people like me, who are unsure of themselves and have trouble expressing themselves properly.

A great song will be great forever – it’s timeless and classic in that way.

It is not the clear-sighted who rule the world. Great achievements are accomplished in a blessed, warm fog.