“No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities..”

“A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.”

“Tearless grief bleeds inwardly”

“There is probably no hell for authors in the next world--they suffer so much from critics and publishers in this one.”

“Our first and last love is self-love.”

“Tears are nature's lotion for the eyes. The eyes see better for being washed by them.”

“We kill all the caterpillars, then complain there are no butterflies.”

“Where ignorance is our master, there is no possibility of real peace.”

“You can be used by someone for their aims when you are not aware of your true being”

“And these thingsthat keep alive on departure know that you praise them; transient,they look to us, the most transient, to be their rescue.They want us to change them completely, in our invisible h...”

“History is the sum total of things that could have been avoided.”

“God is the indwelling and not the transient cause of all things.”