“A dream will always triumph over reality, once it is given the chance.”

“Cannibals prefer those who have no spines.”

“Do not trust people. They are capable of greatness.”

“If a man who can’t count finds a four leaf clover, is he lucky?”

“Faith is, at one and the same time, absolutely necessary and altogether impossible.”

“No one reads; if someone does read, he doesn't understand; if he understands, he immediately forgets.”

“A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.”

“I've always said that idleness dulls the spirit. We have to keep the brain busy, or at least the hands if we don't have a brain.”

“If your workplace was somehow transplanted into the jungle and everyone was forced to survive at a very primitive level, it's safe to say that eventually your boss would rape you.”

“Men are not gentle and graceful beings solely oriented towards good. They are physical, coarse, contradictory, stretched between desires and temptations. In an unnatural wish to make them sinless a...”

“Lie down beside these watersThat bubble from the spring;Hear in the desert silenceThe desert sparrow sing;Draw from the shapeless momentSuch pattern as you can;And cleave henceforth to Beauty;Expec...”

“The motives of mankind are plainer than the motions they produce.”