Genius has no taste for weaving sand.

Ambition has one heel nailed in well, though she stretch her fingers to touch the heavens.

If you miss the first buttonhole, you will not succeed in buttoning up your coat.

Our admiration is so given to dead martyrs that we have little time for living heroes.

To forget a friend is sad. Not everyone has had a friend.

every secret of a writer's soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind is written large in his works, yet we require critics to explain the one and biographers to expound the other. That time hangs heavy on people's hands is the only explanation of the monstrous growth.

Music causes us to think eloquently.

Every time I reform in one direction I go overboard in another.

If you have no Honey in your Pot, have some in your Mouth.

That perhaps is your task--to find the relation between things that seem incompatible yet have a mysterious affinity, to absorb every experience that comes your way fearlessly and saturate it completely so that your poem is a whole, not a fragment; to re-think human life into poetry and so give us tragedy again and comedy by means of characters not spun out at length in the novelist's way, but condensed and synthesized in the poet's way--that is what we look to you to do now.

The weather varies between heavy fog and pale sunshine; My thoughts follow the exact same process.

I have three treasures that I cherish. The first is compassion. The second is moderation. The third is not claiming to be first in the world.

Everything that we encounter leaves traces behind. Everything contributes imperceptibly to our education

Goodie-goodies are the thieves of virtue.

What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have never been discovered.

God could cause us considerable embarrassment by revealing all the secrets of nature to us: we should not know what to do for sheer apathy and boredom.

Many a truth is told in jest.

"I am the awareness that is aware that there is attachment." That's the beginning of the transformation of consciousness.

What is the universal?The single case.What is the particular?Millions of cases.

Modern poets mix too much water with their ink.[Ger., Neuere Poeten thun viel Wasser in die Tinte.]

Only those are fit to live who do not fear to die and none are fit to die who have shrunk from the joy of life and the duty of life.

The Calormens have dark faces and long beards. They wear flowing robes and orange-colored turbans, and they are a wise, wealthy, courteous, cruel and ancient people. They bowed most politely to Caspian and paid him long compliments all about the fountains of prosperity irrigating the gardens of prudence and virtue --and things like that-- but of course what they wanted was the money they had paid.

There are eyes, to be sure, that give no more admission into the man than blueberries.

To arrive at a just estimate of a renowned man's character one must judge it by the standards of his time, not ours.

The more pride we have, the more other people’s pride irritates us

Perhaps I was too saucy and provoking.

Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.

Today I shall behave, as if this is the day I will be remembered.

One should never risk one's whole fortune unless supported by one's entire forces.

It is not so much the being exempt from faults as the having overcome them that is an advantage to us; it being with the follies of the mind as with weeds of a field, which if destroyed and consumed upon the place where they grow, enrich and improve it more than if none had ever sprung there.

The thrifty maxim of the wary Dutch, Is to save all the Money they can touch

If you love a flower that lives on a star, it is sweet to look at the sky at night. All the stars are a-bloom with flowers.

Let there be spaces in your togetherness...just as strings of a lute dance alone though they quiver with the same music.

When we rejoice in our fullness, then we can part with our fruits with joy.

In marriage a little licence, a little independence there must be between people living together day in and day out in the same house.

Many hammer all over the wall and believe that with each blow they hit the nail on the head.

You're heading for a breakdown. Why don't you pull yourself to pieces?

Make for the children an evening of happiness in a world of storm. Let the children have their night of fun and laughter... resolved that by our daring, these same children shall not be denied their right to live in a free and decent world.

The feelings we live through in love and in loneliness are simply, for us, what high tide and low tide are to the sea.

There is another side to death. Whether death happens through an act of violence to a large number of people or to an individual, whether death comes prematurely through illness or accident, or whether death comes through old age, death is always an opening. So a great opportunity comes whenever we face death.

The humorous story is told gravely; the teller does his best to conceal the fact that he even dimly suspects that there is anything funny about it.

But I remember more dearly autumn afternoons in bottoms that lay intensely silent under old great trees

In the actual world--the painful kingdom of time and place--dwell care, and canker, and fear. With thought, with the ideal, is immortal hilarity, the rose of joy.

Two souls dwell, alas! in my breast.

And you wish to be a poet; and you wish to be a lover.

The great make its feel, first of all, the indifference of circumstances. They call into activity the higher perceptions, and subdue the low habits of comfort and luxury; but the higher perceptions find their objects everywhere; only the low habits need palaces and banquets.

Complete your task. Seek no reward. Make no claims. Without faltering fully choose to do what you must do.

We can just as little afford to follow the doctrinaires of an extreme individualism as the doctrinaires of an extreme socialism.

Good breeding, a union of kindness and independence.

My life is a struggle.

And learn that the best thing isTo change my loves while dancingAnd pay but a kiss for a kiss.

If I can capture truth in its simplest form, beauty will follow like a sledgehammer.

Ambition and love are the wings of great actions.

I no longer listen to what people say, I just watch what they do. Behavior never lies.

A painter told me that nobody could draw a tree without in some sort becoming a tree; or draw a child by studying the outlines of its form merely but by watching for a time his motions and plays, the painter enters into his nature and can then draw him at every attitude.

The discipline you learn and character you build from setting and achieving a goal can be more valuable than the achievement of the goal itself.

Supposing is good, but finding out is better.

The wise does not think that only he is right -thus he knows the truth.

Hide not your talents. They for use were made. What's a sundial in the shade?

Great passions are incurable diseases.