Daytime sleep is a cursed slumber from which one wakes in despair.
In mixed company women practise a kind of visual shorthand that they later decode in detail in other women's company.
Our expression and our words never coincide, which is why the animals don't understand us.
The family is a court of justice which never shuts down for night or day.
In the distance, the gestures of animals look human, the gestures of human beings bestial.
The mind gets distracted in all sorts of ways. The heart is its own exclusive concern and diversion.
We sometimes laugh from ear to ear, but it would be impossible for a smile to be wider than the distance between our eyes.
You don't see the European classical musicians allowing the music of Bach, Brahms, or Beethoven to become extinct. That music has gone on for centuries and centuries. We have the same obligation. Why do we have to become so 'hip' that we can say, 'Bebop is square,' or "New Orleans is square'? This, to me, is a shame.
Well, if I'm only a result of past causes, then I'm a victim of those past causes. There is no deeper meaning behind things that gives me a reason to be here.
The very greatest is the alphabet, for in it lies the deepest wisdom; yet only he can fathom it, who truly knows how to put it together.
Without self-expression, life lacks spontaneity and joy. Without service to others, it lacks meaning and purpose.