Eyes and ears are poor witnesses to people if they have uncultured souls.

The way you see people is the way you treat them, and the way you treat them is what they become.

Choosing an attitude of faith will release peace out of your spirit and into your soul.

A room without books is like a body without a soul.

I have found that among its other benefits, giving liberates the soul of the giver.

The ‚I think‘ which Kant said must be able to accompany all my objects, is the ‚I breathe‘ which actually does accompany them.

Music from my fourth year began to be the first of my youthful occupations. Thus early acquainted with the gracious muse who tuned my soul to pure harmonies, I became fond of her, and, as it often seemed to me, she of me.

I like the way the stories of my relationships sound to music more than the way they look in print, in gossip columns or in me talking about them in interviews. I think it’s a better way of telling the stories.

Women have no sympathy and my experience of women is almost as large as Europe.

If one does not understand a person, one tends to regard him as a fool.

An election is a moral horror, as bad as a battle except for the blood; a mud bath for every soul concerned in it.

The intellectual is different from the ordinary man, but only in certain sections of his personality, and even then not all the time.

A man’s only as old as the woman he feels.

Words, words, words! They shut one off from the universe. Three quarters of the time one’s never in contact with things, only with the beastly words that stand for them.

There are various eyes. Even the Sphinx has eyes: and as a result there are various truths, and as a result there is no truth.

Who is richer? The man who is seen, but cannot see? Or the man who is not being seen, but can see?

I don’t see myself as beautiful, because I can see a lot of flaws. People have really odd opinions. They tell me I’m skinny, as if that’s supposed to make me happy.

It is a mania shared by philosophers of all ages to deny what exists and to explain what does not exist.

There’s a part of you – the born-again part, your spirit – that’s dead to sin. That’s why it bothers you now when you sin. The ‚wilderness‘ part of you – your soul – is your unrenewed mind, out-of-control emotions, and stubborn will.

The universe as we know it is a joint product of the observer and the observed.

Even in the 1950s, President Eisenhower was concerned about what he called a campaign of hatred of the U.S. in the Arab world, because of the perception on the Arab street that it supported harsh and oppressive regimes to take their oil.

To go to the world below, having a soul which is like a vessel full of injustice, is the last and worst of all the evils.

Once conform, once do what other people do because they do it, and a lethargy steals over all the finer nerves and faculties of the soul. She becomes all outer show and inward emptiness; dull, callous, and indifferent.

How is it possible that a being with such sensitive jewels as the eyes, such enchanted musical instruments as the ears, and such fabulous arabesque of nerves as the brain can experience itself anything less than a god.

The less you know, the more you believe.

Everything is changing. People are taking their comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke.

Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.

What is straight? A line can be straight, or a street, but the human heart, oh, no, it’s curved like a road through mountains.

One may have a blazing hearth in one’s soul and yet no one ever came to sit by it. Passers-by see only a wisp of smoke from the chimney and continue on their way.

Lo! The poor Indian, whose untutored mind sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind.

My aim is to make the poor look rich and the rich look poor.

The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.

Who would ever think that so much went on in the soul of a young girl?

Every person takes the limits of their own field of vision for the limits of the world.

I write from my soul. This is the reason that critics don’t hurt me, because it is me. If it was not me, if I was pretending to be someone else, then this could unbalance my world, but I know who I am.

Really, I have to laugh because there was a whole set of stories that made me sound like the Dragon Lady, you know, ‚tough this and tough that.‘ Then there is this business about ‚gooey.‘ The bottom line is I am a pragmatic idealist.

Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault.

The moment a person forms a theory, his imagination sees in every object only the traits which favor that theory.

A consistent soul believes in destiny, a capricious one in chance.

Every spirit makes its house, and we can give a shrewd guess from the house to the inhabitant.

Memory is deceptive because it is colored by today’s events.

If God dropped acid, would he see people?

Faith certainly tells us what the senses do not, but not the contrary of what they see; it is above, not against them.

It amazes me sometimes that even intelligent people will analyze a situation or make a judgement after only recognizing the standard or traditional structure of a piece.

Small is the number of people who see with their eyes and think with their minds.

The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages.

When you listen to Ray Charles, there’s never any doubt whose voice that is.

In today’s world, having money has allowed people who are extremely uncool to think that they’re cool and carry it like that. People who really are cool and people who really are artists and have ideas have to literally turn in their cool card to society just to make it past the age of 28.

Let us all remember this: one cannot proclaim the Gospel of Jesus without the tangible witness of one’s life.

He who lives in our mind is near though he may actually be far away; but he who is not in our heart is far though he may really be nearby.

The image is one thing and the human being is another. It’s very hard to live up to an image, put it that way.

In France there are, I think, less than one per cent of people who are too skinny.

Oh, hour of forgiven sin, moment of perfect pardon, our soul shall never forget you while, within you, life and being find immortality!

Most people wouldn’t know music if it came up and bit them on the ass.

Everything that we see is a shadow cast by that which we do not see.

The first thing which I can record concerning myself is, that I was born. These are wonderful words. This life, to which neither time nor eternity can bring diminution – this everlasting living soul, began. My mind loses itself in these depths.

Philosophically considered, the universe is composed of Nature and the Soul. Strictly speaking, therefore, all that is separate from us, all which Philosophy distinguishes as the ‚Not Me,‘ that is, both nature and art, all other men and my own body, must be ranked under this name, ‚Nature.‘

The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it’s dead for you.

It occurred to me that there was no difference between men, in intelligence or race, so profound as the difference between the sick and the well.

Pictures and shapes are but secondary objects and please or displease only in the memory.

This soul, or life within us, by no means agrees with the life outside us. If one has the courage to ask her what she thinks, she is always saying the very opposite to what other people say.