“I stick my finger into existence and it smells of nothing.”

It is very important in life to know when your cue comes.

Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are.

People understand me so poorly that they don’t even understand my complaint about them not understanding me.

It is impossible to exist without passion.

The task must be made difficult, for only the difficult inspires the noble-hearted.

It is so hard to believe because it is so hard to obey.

Boredom is the root of all evil.

Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor.

If I were to wish for anything, I should not wish for wealth and power, but for the passionate sense of the potential, for the eye which, ever young and ardent, sees the possible.

The highest and most beautiful things in life are not to be heard about, nor read about, nor seen but, if one will, are to be lived.

My melancholy is the most faithful sweetheart I have had.

What labels me, negates me.

In my great melancholy, I loved life, for I love my melancholy.

And this is one of the most crucial definitions for the whole of Christianity; that the opposite of sin is not virtue but faith.

What if everything in the world were a misunderstanding, what if laughter were really tears?

The greatest hazard of all, losing one’s self, can occur very quietly in the world, as if it were nothing at all.

Love is the water of life, drink deeply.

Love brings about the most vulnerable parts of us.

Listen to your elder’s advice not because they are always right, but because they have more experience of being wrong.

If you don’t make peace with your past it will keep showing up in your present.

It’s beautiful to find beauty in others but when it comes to you, you ending up finding only faults.

If you do too much, it’s going to lose its effectiveness.

Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.

It is either easy or impossible.