You cannot stand anywhere in the universe that is outside of yourself.
Lying increases the creative faculties, expands the ego, and lessens the frictions of social contacts.
No one ever told me grief felt so much like fear.
There is a time for departure even when there is no certain place to go.
“Nothing for preserving the body like having no heart.”
If the day and the night are such that you greet them with with joy, and life emits a fragrance like flowers and sweet-scented herbs, more elastic, more starry, more immortal–that is your success.
To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing and be nothing.
The worst thing you can do for those you love is the things they could and should do themselves.