““A minute later she asked me if I loved her. I told her it didn’t mean anything but that I didn’t think so.””

“Life is everything. Life is God. Everything changes and moves and that movement is God. And while there is life there is joy in consciousness of the divine. To love life is to love God.”

“The greatest victory is that which requires no battle.”

““The key to success is action.””

“ As Voltaire once wrote,  The best is the enemy of the good.”

“My dreams are the problems of the day stepped up to absurdity, a little like men dancing, wearing the horns and masks of animals.”

“If you feel irritated by the absurd remarks of two people whose conversation you happen to overhear, you should imagine that you are listening to a dialogue of two fools in a comedy.”

“The only artists I have ever known who are personally delightful are bad artists. Good artists exist simply in what they make, and consequently are perfectly uninteresting in what they are.”

“Nearly half of all New Guinea languages have fewer than 500 speakers.”

“Outcasts always mourn.”

“Could they be perpetrated without being known, in a country like this, where social and literary intercourse is on such a footing, where every man is surrounded by a neighbourhood of voluntary spies, and where roads and newspapers lay everything open?”

““To die hating them, that was freedom.” ”

“If virtue promises good fortune and tranquility and happiness, certainly also the progress towards virtue is progress towards each of these things.”

“I cannot pretend to feel impartial about the colours. I rejoice with the brilliant ones, and am genuinely sorry for the poor browns.”

“"Roses," she thought sardonically, "All trash, m'dear."”

“Remember that you ought to behave in life as you would at a banquet. As something is being passed around it comes to you; stretch out your hand, take a portion of it politely. It passes on; do not detain it. Or it has not come to you yet; do not project your desire to meet it, but wait until it comes in front of you. So act toward children, so toward a wife, so toward office, so toward wealth.”

“Improvement at anything is based on thousands of tiny failures, and the magnitude of your success is based on how many times you’ve failed at something.”

“Through the eclipse of large areas of the self, by repression and inhibition as well as by idealization and externalization, the individual loses sight of himself; he feels, if he does not actually become, like a shadow without weight and substance.”

“Nature hath given men one tongue but two ears, that we may hear from others twice as much as we speak.”

“The dream is a series of images, which are apparently contradictory and nonsensical, but arise in reality from psychologic material which yields a clear meaning.”

“ "Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart."”

“In countries where there is a mild climate, less effort is expended on the struggle with nature and man is kinder and more gentle.”

“In all chaos there is a cosmos, in all disorder a secret order.”

“To tell the truth, I often felt uneasy when I thought of the excessive brittleness and fragility of the moon. The moon is generally repaired in Hamburg, and very imperfectly. It is done by a lame cooper, an obvious blockhead who has no idea how to do it. He took waxed thread and olive-oil—hence that pungent smell over all the earth which compels people to hold their noses. And this makes the moon so fragile that no men can live on it, but only noses. Therefore we cannot see our noses, because they are on the moon.”

““Even in him, even in your great teacher, I prefer the thing to the words, his actions and his life are more important than his speech, the gestures of his hand more important than his opinions.””

““Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.””

“There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.”

“All I really wanted was to try and live the life that was spontaneously welling up within me. Why was that so very difficult?”

“The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the son of his own works.”

“The very remembrance of my former misfortune proves a new one to me.”