“There is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness, and truth.”

Life did not stop, and one had to live.

A man is like a fraction whose numerator is what he is and whose denominator is what he thinks of himself. The larger the denominator, the smaller the fraction.

When you love someone, you love the person as they are, and not as you’d like them to be.

Sometimes she did not know what she feared, what she desired: whether she feared or desired what had been or what would be, and precisely what she desired, she did not know.

True life is lived when tiny changes occur.

I simply want to live; to cause no evil to anyone but myself.

I often think that men don’t understand what is noble and what is ignorant, though they always talk about it.

The Kingdom of God is Within You.

Boredom: the desire for desires.

Only people who are capable of loving strongly can also suffer great sorrow, but this same necessity of loving serves to counteract their grief and heals them.

If you love me as you say you do, she whispered, ‘make it so that I am at peace.

Happiness consists of living each day as if it were the first day of your honeymoon and the last day of your vacation.

Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.

It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.

Everything intelligent is so boring.

Whatever our fate is or may be, we have made it and do not complain of it.

San Francisco would be a good location for a murder mystery.

Money will not purchase character or good government.

I don’t want to become as good as I once was. I want to become better.

Nobody’s as good as you when you do what you do. I need you to own the time that comes with that.

There is nothing so good as a burial at sea. It is simple, tidy, and not very incriminating.

If money titles meant anything, I’d play more tournaments. The only thing that means a lot to me is winning. If I have more wins than anybody else and win more majors than anybody else in the same year, then it’s been a good year.

My goal is to remain healthy my entire career, and a healthy diet seems like a good start.

And all the voices, all the goals, all the yearnings, all the sorrows, all the pleasures, all the good and evil, all of them together was the world. All of them together was the stream of events, the music of life.