The finest works of art are precious, among other reasons, because they make it possible for us to know, if only imperfectly and for a little while, what it actually feels like to think subtly and feel nobly.

Anything I’ve ever said, I certainly was feeling at the time.

Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love.

Age is whatever you think it is. You are as old as you think you are.

Assuming if there’s such a thing as reality, if you have a false relationship with it, how can you do anything but fail?

Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears.

I used to tell my husband that, if he could make me ‚understand‘ something, it would be clear to all the other people in the country.

Ah, women. They make the highs higher and the lows more frequent.

Judgements prevent us from seeing the good that lies beyond appearances.

If a victory is told in detail, one can no longer distinguish it from a defeat.

The artist forges himself to the others, midway between the beauty he cannot do without and the community he cannot tear himself away from. That is why true artists scorn nothing: they are obliged to understand rather than to judge.

The greatest service that can be offered to children who show personality traits or inclinations that might not be understood by the adults around them is to allow them to express their own unique humanity.

I think that it’s okay to be mad at someone who hurt you. This isn’t about, like, the pageantry of trying to seem like nothing affects you.

Action seems to follow feeling, but really action and feeling go together; and by regulating the action, which is under the more direct control of the will, we can indirectly regulate the feeling, which is not.

If we can really understand the problem, the answer will come out of it, because the answer is not separate from the problem.

But O, how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man’s eyes.

It is understanding that gives us an ability to have peace. When we understand the other fellow’s viewpoint, and he understands ours, then we can sit down and work out our differences.

Not only is there but one way of doing things rightly, but there is only one way of seeing them, and that is, seeing the whole of them.

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

Unless you love someone, nothing else makes any sense.

Anyone who says he can see through women is missing a lot.

Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.

The supreme function of reason is to show man that some things are beyond reason.

Music fills in for words a lot of the time when people don’t know what to say, and I think music can be more eloquent than words.

What we feel and think and are is to a great extent determined by the state of our ductless glands and viscera.

It’s the way I study – to understand something by trying to work it out or, in other words, to understand something by creating it. Not creating it one hundred percent, of course; but taking a hint as to which direction to go but not remembering the details. These you work out for yourself.

Beauty is the greatest seducer of man.

Thanks to Botox and fillers, as well as the work that I’ve already had, my face pretty much maintains itself.

Most people have no idea what something would sound like if it wasn’t an MP3.

I’m trying to make God more relevant in our society. And I think talking in everyday terms and making sure people can understand it – I think that’s important.

The world we see that seems so insane is the result of a belief system that is not working. To perceive the world differently, we must be willing to change our belief system, let the past slip away, expand our sense of now, and dissolve the fear in our minds.

I just have a thing in my brain that when I’m about to do something that’s genuine or authentic, I think of it in song form. I’ll be like, ‚Yo, this is a human emotion that no one talks about.‘

I’ve often felt depressed; everyone feels depressed.

There is no remedy for love but to love more.

When I understand myself, I understand you, and out of that understanding comes love.

Nature gives you the face you have at twenty; it is up to you to merit the face you have at fifty.

Hatred is settled anger.

There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist.

To find out your real opinion of someone, judge the impression you have when you first see a letter from them.

It’s a tragedy, in a way, that Americans are brought up to think that they cannot feel for other people and other beings just because they are different. They think they’re different. It’s very limiting.

Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends.

People like music when they’re in love, but they don’t need it as much. You need music when you’re missing someone or you’re pining for someone or you’re forgetting someone or you’re trying to process what just happened.

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

If, after I depart this vale, you ever remember me and have thought to please my ghost, forgive some sinner and wink your eye at some homely girl.

I’m the type person, my safe place to be emotional is the booth.

Dignity, and even holiness too, sometimes, are more questions of coat and waistcoat than some people imagine.

I can see, and that is why I can be happy, in what you call the dark, but which to me is golden. I can see a God-made world, not a manmade world.

Man is the only animal that blushes – or needs to.

It’s every girl’s dream to be a cover girl!

The beautiful seems right by force of beauty, and the feeble wrong because of weakness.

It’s not possible to stop love.

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.

Renunciation remains sorrow, though a sorrow borne willingly.

Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.

Achievement brings its own anticlimax.

When people get married young, you don’t really understand the true definition of marriage.

It is easier to feel than to realize, or in any way explain, Yosemite grandeur. The magnitudes of the rocks and trees and streams are so delicately harmonized, they are mostly hidden.

It’s still scary every time I go back to the past. Each morning, my heart catches. When I get there, I remember how the light was, where the draft was coming from, what odors were in the air. When I write, I get all the weeping out.

Blushing is the color of virtue.

While physics and mathematics may tell us how the universe began, they are not much use in predicting human behavior because there are far too many equations to solve. I’m no better than anyone else at understanding what makes people tick, particularly women.

Because of your smile, you make life more beautiful.