"There are moments when one has to..." - Quote by Oscar Wilde

“She had a passion for secrecy, but she herself was merely a Sphinx without a secret.”

“Many people become bankrupt through having invested too heavily in the prose of life. To have ruined one's self over poetry is an honor.”

“To do nothing at all is the most difficult thing in the world, the most difficult and the most intellectual.”

“Explore, and explore, and explore. Be neither chided nor flattered out of your position of perpetual inquiry. Neither dogmatise yourself, nor accept another's dogmatism. Why should you renounce your right to traverse the star-lit deserts of truth, for the premature comforts of an acre, house, and barn? Truth also has its roof, and bed, and board. Make yourself necessary to the world, and mankind will give you bread, and if not store of it, yet such as shall not take away your property in all men's possessions, in all men's affections, in art, in nature, and in hope.”

“Travelling is like a novel: it's what happens that counts.”

“The key to life is to figure out who to be the batboy for.”

“The superior man, even when he is not moving, has a feeling of reverence, and while he speaks not, he has the feeling of truthfulness.”

“Humans are very seldom either totally sincere or totally hypocritical. Their moods change, their motives are mixed, and they are often quite mistaken as to what their motives are.”

“I have heard of your paintings too, well enough; God has given you one face, and you make yourselves another.”