People don't realize how a man's whole life can be changed by one book.
One ought to hold on to one's heart; for if one lets it go, one soon loses control of the head too.
All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake up in the day to find it was vanity, but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dreams with open eyes, to make it possible.
If it's true that our species is alone in the universe, then I’d have to say the universe aimed rather low and settled for very little.
We make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give.
Judge your success by what you had to give up in order to get it.
Without literature, life is hell.
Nothing is permanent in this wicked world, not even our troubles.
Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody’s going to know whether you did it or not.
When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better, too.
We are all like the bright moon, we still have our darker side.
No one here gets out alive.
Art is the proper task of life.
Of course I’ll hurt you. Of course you’ll hurt me. Of course we will hurt each other. But this is the very condition of existence. To become spring, means accepting the risk of winter. To become presence, means accepting the risk of absence.
You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality.
Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.
The first and final thing you have to do in this world is to last it and not be smashed by it.
I am a forest, and a night of dark trees: but he who is not afraid of my darkness, will find banks full of roses under my cypresses.
You can suffer the pain of change or suffer remaining the way you are.
When things go wrong, don’t go with them.