"Wicked thoughts and worthless efforts gradually set..." - Quote by Arthur Schopenhauer

“Our first ideas of life are generally taken from fiction rather than fact.”

“Truth is no harlot who throws her arms round the neck of him who does not desire her; on the contrary, she is so coy a beauty that even the man who sacrifices everything to her can still not be certain of her favors.”

“What a man is: that is to say, personality, in the widest sense of the word; under which are included health, strength, beauty, temperament, moral character, intelligence, and education.”

“Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting in a particular way.”

“Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age.”

“It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again.”

“Problems are not my problem. It's not what happens to me but what happens in me that matters.”

“It was Ba's inspiration which helped me reach the heights of my inner self. She was my priceless jewel.”

“Within us - the heart of us, really - is a 'ground' that is to our thoughts and feelings, our relationships with others and ourselves, as is the Earth to the leaves that first race across her and then, no longer able to run, give themselves up to nourish her body so that she may give birth again come the spring.”