“Lord, help my poor soul.”

Stupidity is a talent for misconception.

The true genius shudders at incompleteness – and usually prefers silence to saying something which is not everything it should be.

I wish I could write as mysterious as a cat.

I felt that I breathed an atmosphere of sorrow.

A man’s grammar, like Caesar’s wife, should not only be pure, but above suspicion of impurity.

To die laughing must be the most glorious of all glorious deaths!

And so being young and dipped in folly I fell in love with melancholy.

All that we see and seem is but a dream within a dream.

Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before.

Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger, portion of truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant.

Deep in earth my love is lying and I must weep alone.

And I fell violently on my face.

Art is to look at not to criticize.

The fury of a demon instantly possessed me. I knew myself no longer. My original soul seemed, at once, to take its flight from my body; and a more than fiendish malevolence, gin-nurtured, thrilled every fibre of my frame.

To elevate the soul, poetry is necessary.

Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.

If you don’t like seeing pictures of violence towards animals being posted, you need to help stop the violence, not the pictures.

Patriotism is supporting your country all the time and your government when it deserves it.

When one reaches out to help another he touches the face of God.

I think some aspects of writing can be taught. Obviously, you can’t teach vision or talent. But you can help with comfort.

There is power in understanding the journey of others to help create your own.

Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.

Yoga isn’t just about the body, it’s also about the mind and it’s a technique that has really helped me.

You must accept the fact that there is no help but self-help. I cannot tell you how to gain freedom since freedom exists within you.