Action without study fatal. Study without action is futile.

Viewed narrowly, all life is universal hunger and an expression of energy associated with it.

Those who sit at the feast will continue to enjoy themselves even though the veil that separates them from the world of toiling reality below has been lifted by mass revolts and critics.

One must learn, if one is to see the beauty in Japan, to like an extraordinarily restrained and delicate loveliness.

The dogma of woman's complete historical subjection to men must be rated as one of the most fantastic myths ever created by the human mind.

Despite the modern dogma to the effect that women were a subject sex until the nineteenth century 'emancipated' them from history, women in history had demonstrated strong wills and purposes, had made assertions, and had directed or influenced all human destiny, including their own, since human life began.

A note from a student’s mother: ‘Please excuse Chris from reading, because he doesn’t like it.

Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.

We can invent only with memory.

The more one is hated, I find, the happier one is.

Happiness is not out there for us to find. The reason that it's not out there is that it's inside us.

A woman's best love letters are always written to the man she is betraying.

Life itself, she thought, as she went upstairs to dress for dinner, was stranger than dreams and far, far more disordered.

I hope you don't mind that I put down in words, how wonderful life is while you're in the world.

I do not exist to impress the world. I exist to live my life in a way that will make me happy.