My father once told me that it’s not enough for a man to be lucky; that a guy has to know when that streak is on for him.

Darkness had fallen upon everything for him; but just because of this darkness he felt that the one guiding clue in the darkness was his work, and he clutched it and clung to it with...

Where there is a true art and genuine virtuosity the artist can paint an incomparable masterpiece without leaving even a trace of his identity.

When something happens to you that is beyond words, life is happening to you. When the Ultimate is happening to you, you are beyond words.

The only people who really think they have seen something new are those whose experience is limited or whose vision can’t penetrate beneath the surface of things. Because something is recent, they think it is...

The first and last weakness of his life, before him again. For a moment he felt himself blinded by his own memories; his own remembrances of the wits and wiles of Marian Halcombe that would...

An inextricable relationship between the foolishness and the selfishness is like that of an egg and a chicken. No one knows which came first and perhaps even none cares about it.

And as for the vague something — was it a sinister or a sorrowful, a designing or a desponding expression? — that opened upon a careful observer, now and then, in his eye, and closed...

Sit on the train tracks and really believe a train won’t come; lie in your house when it is inflamed and tell yourself that it really isn’t burning; go ahead, neglect all sort of reason...

I used to say to my classes that the ways to get insight are: to study infants; to study animals; to study primitive people; to be psychoanalyzed; to have a religious conversion and get over...

Anya looked upon Nin admirably. Having him as a partner-in-crime—if only on this one occasion, which she hoped would only be the start of something more—was more revitalizing than the cheap thrills of a cookie-cutter...

The poet, the artist, the sleuth – whoever sharpens our perception tends to be antisocial; rarely “well-adjusted”, he cannot go along with currents and trends. A strange bond often exists between antisocial types in their...

Not to understand is profound; to understand is shallow. Not to understand is to be on the inside; to understand is to be on the outside.

When you’re poor and hungry and frightened of failure, you often don’t have the luxury of high values, lofty goals, and social conscience. Funny how fear and poverty will acid-wash your value set, burn away...

Investing in luck squanders skill.

The purported insight achieved by the patient is not the product of a process of veridical self-discovery, but rather reflects the patient’s conversion to the therapist’s interpretation.

Love gives insight, Maggie, and insight often gives foreboding. Listen to me, let me supply you with books; do let me see you sometimes, be your brother and teacher, as you said at Lorton. It...

Philanthropy is. . . greatly overrated. A pain in the gut is not sympathy for the underprivileged, but the result of eating a green apple; the philanthropist gives to ease his own pain.

Insights, after all, come from the overlap between seemingly unrelated thoughts. They emerge when concepts are transposed, when the rules of one place are shifted to a new domain.

Follow the light of your intuition, and keep away from the darkness of convention.

It takes a person of great care and insight to watch for any abnormality in the green grass even while it grows abundantly and healthily.

Hoga Gothyelk no longer felt anger, not truly — only varieties of sorrow.

There’s an old saying that great writing is simple but not easy, and so it is. The search for that one plain but inobvious [SIC] word that will do the work of five, the agony...

A person who is not getting job for long only needs the right opportunity to present himself through introduction ,but he who is in the same job for long requires the right and thorough introspection.

What man knows is little enough and most of his general concepts in every field are vitiated by the artificial concepts he has created to cover his ignorance. These concepts must be destroyed. One tool...

I’m strong on the outside, not all the way through. I’ve never been perfect, but neither have you.

Superior insight into history used to be exhilarating for radicals: if we can see more clearly than the Enemy what is really going on, then we can use this knowledge to advance our values. But...

Partings are the beginnings of new meetings.Beginnings happen because there are endings.

He was shaken by an unwelcome insight. Lives did not add as integers. They added as infinities.

To attain to enlightenment is to attain to all. When you are not, you become the whole.

Hell didn’t make me a monster. It just confirmed all my worst fears about myself.

If strangers like one’s quote truly ,then it only means that the in-built message has enough depth,breadth, touch and connection with the life’s reality.

If we lost everything except for the clothes we stood up in, would we turn to each other and think….How lucky we really were?

Greatest quotes were not from the pencils of great men but from the the tablets of great minds who are willing to lead their minds on the journey of thought.

Too much?” he asks.

Use beautiful to describe a sandwich, and the word means nothing.

The problem of knowledge is that there are many more books on birds written by ornithologists than books on birds written by birds and books on ornithologists written by birds

Eyes that are blind have no way to tell the loveliness of faces and features; eyes with no pupils have no way to tell the beauty of colored and embroidered silks.

The cure is as simple as this: Live your words and live your belief system.

Accusations are merely the envy of the unenlightened given form.

Each of us is shaped by the truth of our natures.Von to Silver

Among the problems with shame was that it in fact did not make you shorter or quieter or less visible. You just felt like you were.

By giving us more work, of course.

I never saw it coming; I never thought you’d leave, but baby what you gave me was the courage to find me.

You can capture me with your beauty, only if you are a brilliant photographer.

We sometimes have a flash of understanding that amounts to the insight of genius, and yet it slowly withers, even in our hands – like a flower. The form remains, but the colours and the...

Some blind faithfully; some see.

The Medusa”)

The erruption of feelings & emotions that follows a near-death exerience, or any event that causes us to stop & look deeply at the reality of our lives, is ripe with the potential for insight...

I don’t think being a comedian gives you any fucking insight into what makes people laugh.