The greatest gift is the passion for reading. It is cheap it consoles it distracts it excites it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination.
First and last what is demanded of genius is love of truth.
Wisdom is found only in truth.
As soon as you trust yourself you will know how to live.
Just trust yourself then you will know how to live.
There is no reciprocity. Men love women. Women love children. Children...
Loving, like prayer, is a power as well as a process. It’s curative....
The very essence of romance is uncertainty.