Three things drive a man outdoors; smoke, a leaking roof and a scolding wife.

There's no reality except the one contained within us. That's why so many people live an unreal life. They take images outside them for reality and never allow the world within them to assert itself.

Hermann Hesse

Art teaches nothing, except the significance of life.

Henry Miller

Our experience is composed rather of illusions that of wisdom acquired.

Joseph Roux

Breathe-in experience, breathe-out poetry.

Muriel Rukeyser

Love is whatever you can still betray. Betrayal can only happen if you love.

John LeCarre

No, it is not you I love so ardently, The glitter of your beauty is not for me: I love in you my past suffering And my perished youth.

Mikhail Lermontov

Our moral economy went bankrupt long before our financial one and must be made prosperous.

Steve Maraboli

It doesn't hurt to feel sad from time to time.

Willie Nelson

I think the people who are making Christmas-themed movies today feel that people are more cynical about Christmas. There's more of an edge.

Leonard Maltin

He who fears and doubts cannot make any progress either in the spiritual or worldly sphere. The mind is cramped. He alone is a hero, he alone attains greatness, who moves forward to realise the truth without caring whether the world is real or not.

Swami Adbhutananda

We all like stories that make us cry. It's so nice to feel sad when you've nothing in particular to feel sad about.

Anne Sullivan

No action will be considered blameless, unless the will was so, for by the will the act was dictated.

Seneca (Seneca the Elder)