A habit of devout fellowship with God is the spring of all our life, and the strength of it.
Serious literature does not exist to make life easy but to complicate it.
Don't be fooled by your own wisdom
To me, art almost always speaks more forcefully when it appears in an imperfect, accidental, and fragmentary way, somehow just signaling its presence, allowing one to feel it through the ineptitude of the interpretation. I prefer the Chopin that reaches me in the street from an open window to the Chopin served in great style from the concert stage.
I became bold because I had absolutely nothing to lose: neither honors, nor earnings, nor friends. I had to find myself anew and rely only on myself, because I could rely on no one else. My form is my solitude.
I didn't go to the lectures. My valet, who was more distinguished than I, went instead.
Man is profoundly dependent on the reflection of himself in another man's soul, be it even the soul of an idiot.
I will remark in the way of general information, that in California, that land of felicitous nomenclature, the literary name of this sort of stuff is "hogwash"
If you can neither accept it or change it, try to laugh at it.
There is a book of Revelation in every one's life, as there is in the Bible.
Regardless of what we go through in life, there is always purpose wrapped within the pain.