“So said Hair-Face, and they killed him, because, they said, he was a wild man and wanted to go back and live in a tree. It was very strange. Whenever a man arose and wanted to go forward all those ...”

“Thirty thousand a year was all right, but dyspepsia and inability to be humanly happy robbed such princely income of all its value.”

“He was mastered by the sheer surging of life, the tidal wave of being, the perfect joy of each separate muscle, joint, and sinew in that it was everything that was not death, that it was aglow and ...”

“I would rather be ashes than dust!I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry-rot.I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magni...”

“There is an ecstasy that marks the summit of life, and beyond which life cannot rise. And such is the paradox of living, this ecstasy comes when one is most alive, and it comes as a complete forget...”

“You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.”

“But love's a malady without a cure.”

“My whole family could sing. My family harmonized without any instruments to accompany them.”

“They can do without architecture who have no olives nor wines in the cellar.”

“Love is such a tremendous force of feeling! When you can't stop loving, you simply cannot stop it.”

“When you think in silence you cannot speak your mind.”

“A successful person will never use the word no, I cannot or it is impossible”

“Respect commands itself and can neither be given nor withheld when it is due.”