Who, being loved, is poor?

We must conceive of this whole universe as one commonwealth of which both gods and men are members.

Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs.

Our faith is faith in someone else’s faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case.

To teach how to live without certainty and yet without being paralysed by hesitation is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy, in our age, can do for those who study it.

If I get married, I want to be very married.

That old law about ‚an eye for an eye‘ leaves everybody blind. The time is always right to do the right thing.

What is good? All that heightens the feeling of power, the will to power, power itself in man.

There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good.

He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything.

No matter how beautiful a woman might be, you’re always threatened by certain… You’re always threatened by other women, period.

We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the world.

I want to know why the universe exists, why there is something greater than nothing.

We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love. There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us. When we discover this, we are less prone to hate our enemies.

I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself, I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself now and then in finding a smoother pebble or prettier shell than ordinary, while the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.

If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men’s cottage princes‘ palaces.

There is nothing besides a spiritual world; what we call the world of the senses is the Evil in the spiritual world, and what we call Evil is only the necessity of a moment in our eternal evolution.

You can always count on Americans to do the right thing – after they’ve tried everything else.

You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.

If you think in terms of a year, plant a seed; if in terms of ten years, plant trees; if in terms of 100 years, teach the people.

I’m a romantic; a sentimental person thinks things will last, a romantic person hopes against hope that they won’t.

Noise proves nothing. Often a hen who has merely laid an egg cackles as if she laid an asteroid.

Honor thy error as a hidden intention.

I soothe my conscience now with the thought that it is better for hard words to be on paper than that Mummy should carry them in her heart.

Deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.

There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.

An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.

Many a doctrine is like a window pane. We see truth through it but it divides us from truth.

Let us be moral. Let us contemplate existence.

My wife told me if there is any rumors about me, it better be about politics and not about my social life.

I like America, just as everybody else does. I love America, I gotta say that. But America will be judged.

Time stays, we go.

My husband is everything to me and without him it’s just not the same.

To go beyond is as wrong as to fall short.

My husband says I look like a Q-tip.

But although all our knowledge begins with experience, it does not follow that it arises from experience.

I love food.

Such as we are made of, such we be.

I have lived long enough to satisfy both nature and glory.

I think what it really is, is that I date creative people. And I think that what intimidates them is not my purse; it’s my mind.

It is easy to say how we love new friends, and what we think of them, but words can never trace out all the fibers that knit us to the old.

The African is my brother but he is my younger brother by several centuries.

I worked my way up from nothing to a state of extreme poverty.

To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others.

I’m more of an adventurous type than a relationship type.

Culture of the mind must be subservient to the heart.

Men marry because they are tired; women, because they are curious; both are disappointed.

How do I know about a man’s needs for a sex symbol? I’m a girl.

The difficulty is to try and teach the multitude that something can be true and untrue at the same time.

I always wanted a family.

The finite is annihilated in the presence of the infinite, and becomes a pure nothing. So our spirit before God, so our justice before divine justice.

The end of life is to be like God, and the soul following God will be like Him.

To see and listen to the wicked is already the beginning of wickedness.

It may be possible to gild pure gold, but who can make his mother more beautiful?

My experiences in life are getting bigger and better. The more stuff I do, the more stuff I talk about – having kids, traveling, going through relationship problems, dealing with things in my own family. All that stuff builds character.

Sure, I can get a little bit jealous. The good part about jealousy is that it comes from passion. It’s also the dangerous part and it’s an ugly emotion that hurts.

In the final analysis, the questions of why bad things happen to good people transmutes itself into some very different questions, no longer asking why something happened, but asking how we will respond, what we intend to do now that it happened.

Love. Fall in love and stay in love. Write only what you love, and love what you write. The key word is love. You have to get up in the morning and write something you love, something to live for.

A well governed appetite is the greater part of liberty.

The deep, personal material of the latter half of your life is your children. You can write about your parents when they’re gone, but your children are still going to be here, and you’re going to want them to come and visit you in the nursing home.

A pessimist? That’s a person who has been intimately acquainted with an optimist.