When you realize that every stressful moment you experience is a gift that points you to your own freedom, life becomes very kind.
Blossoms are scattered by the wind and the wind cares nothing but the blossoms of the heart no wind can touch.
There is nothing finer than to be alone with nothing to distract you.
You should never put the new antlers of a deer to your nose and smell them. They have little insects that crawl into the nose and devour the brain.
Leave undone whatever you hesitate to do.
If man were never to fade away. . . but lingered on forever in the world, how things would lose their power to move us. The most precious thing in life is its uncertainty.
It is a most wonderful comfort to sit alone beneath a lamp, book spread before you, and commune with someone from the past whom you have never met.
Success, recognition, and conformity are the bywords of the modern world where everyone seems to crave the anesthetizing security of being identified with the majority.
Marry somebody you love. That's the whole thing. And continue to love them.
The inferior creatures groan under your cruelties. You hunt them for your pleasure, and overwork them for your covetousness, and kill them for your gluttony, and set them to fight one with another till they die, and count it a sport and a pleasure to behold them worry one another.
I've been working some really long hours for the last five or six years. Anybody who works on series television knows, and especially women because women spend probably two hours more than the guys with all their hair and makeup crap.