“Love and friendship exclude each other.”

“The sweetest of all sounds is that of the voice of the woman we love.”

“At the beginning and at the end of love, the two lovers are embarrassed to find themselves alone.”

“When a work lifts your spirits and inspires bold and noble thoughts in you, do not look for any other standard to judge by: the work is good, the product of a master craftsman.”

“There is no road too long to the man who advances deliberately and without undue haste there are no honors too distant to the man who prepares himself for them with patience. ”

“There are only three events in a man's life; birth, life, and death; he is not conscious of being born, he dies in pain, and he forgets to live.”

“I do not know what makes a writer, but it probably isn't happiness.”

“Men are the only animals that devote themselves day in and day out to making one another unhappy.”

“The worst sin-perhaps the only sin- passion can commit is to be joyless.”

“Hatred is a louder exhibition of inability.”

“Any problem, and I emphasize "any" problem, represents our inability to consciously connect to our Source in the moment.”