By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.
A neurosis is a secret that you don't know you are keeping.
If you're trying to take a roomful of people by surprise, it's a lot easier to hit your targets if you don't yell going through the door.
To do anything truly worth doing, I must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in with gusto and scramble through as well as I can.
There is surely a piece of divinity in us, something that was before the elements, and owes no homage unto the sun.
I said to myself, I have things in my head that are not like what anyone has taught me - shapes and ideas so near to me - so natural to my way of being and thinking that it hasn't occurred to me to put them down. I decided to start anew, to strip away what I had been taught.
Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.