Beauty is power; a smile is its sword.
Respectable people. . . What bastards!
If you shut up truth and bury it under the ground, it will but grow, and gather to itself such explosive power that the day it bursts through it will blow up everything in its way.
If you ask me what I came into this life to do, I will tell you: I came to live out loud.
Civilization will not attain to its perfection until the last stone from the last church falls on the last priest.
I would rather die of passion than of boredom.
Nothing develops intelligence like travel.
. . . One who possesses four qualities is deposited in heaven as if brought there. What four? Bodily good conduct, verbal good conduct, mental good conduct, and gratitude or thankfulness. One possessing these four qualities is deposited in heaven as if brought there.
Freedom and happiness are won by disregarding things that lie beyond our control.
You slam the bottom and either walk away or suck it up and get through it.
Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this.