“Intellectuals are too sentimental for me.”

“In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love you want the other person.”

“I have always fought for ideas - until I learned that it isn't ideas but grief struggle and flashes of vision which enlighten.”

“In real love you want the other person's good.”

“The great thing to learn about life is first not to do what you don't want to do and second to do what you do want to do.”

“Paris is the city in which one loves to live. Sometimes I think this is because it is the only city in the world where you can step out of a railway stationthe Gare D'Orsayand see, simultaneously, ...”

“Knowing the self is the biggest truth. If we find the truth within, we have found God.”

“This above all: to thine own self be true.”

“What I'm looking for is not out there, it is in me.”

“I think the highest forgiveness is to accept that creation is thoroughly tangled, with every possible quality given outlet for expression. People need to accept once and for all that there is only ...”

“You couldn't relive your life, skipping the awful parts, without losing what made it worthwhile. You had to accept it as a whole--like the world, or the person you loved.”

“Letting go doesn't mean that you don't care about someone anymore. It's just realizing that the only person you really have control over is yourself.”