"Each one of these young writers analyzing his suffering from mystic aspirations, or from unrest, or from boredom, would be cured at once if he strove to cure or to relieve the real sufferings of those around him. We who have been favored have no right to complain. If with all we have, we still don't know how to be happy, this is because we have a false idea of happiness. When we understand that the secret of happiness lies not in posessing but in giving, by making others happy we shall be happier ourselves."
"What thwarts us and demands of us the greatest effort is also what can teach us most."
"The giving of love is an education in itself."
"It took my brother Jonnie fifteen years of really hard work to become an overnight sensation. So we'd like to dedicate this book to all those who are out there still working in restaurants, driving taxis, doing whatever they have to do to scrape by for their art. Stay true to yourselves and to your dreams and know they can come true."
"Life begets life. Energy creates energy. It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich."
"I feel there is something unexplored about women that only a woman can explore."
"The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart."
"Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood."
"You never find yourself until you face the truth."
"Nature never repeats herself, and the possibilities of one human soul will never be found in another."
"Every day is a renewal, every morning the daily miracle. This joy you feel is life."
"If we go down into ourselves we find that we possess exactly what we desire."
"It is never too late to be what you might have been."
"We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospection."
