A generous spirit is as eloquent in acknowledging benefits as it is bounteous in bestowing them.

The best manner of avenging ourselves is by not resembling him who has injured us.

Happiness is not perfected until it is shared.

Be shocking, be daring, be bold, be passionate.

Imparting knowledge is only lighting other men's candles at our lamp without depriving ourselves of any flame.

Nobility, without virtue, is a fine setting without a gem

Self-love leads men of narrow minds to measure all mankind by their own capacity.

That grief is the most durable which flows inward, and buries its streams with its fountain, in the depths of the heart.

It is not designed that the road should be made too smooth for us here upon earth.

There is nothing so clear-sighted and sensible as a noble mind in a low estate.

Magnanimity is above circumstance; and any virtue which depends on that is more of constitution than of principle.

Originality is the most deadly mirage in all of art. You can chase it from now until doomsday, and you'll only find yourself lost and dying of thirst.

Life among clones would not be worth living, and a sane person will only rejoice that others have abilities that they do not share. That should be elementary.

The truth doesn't have to do with cruelty, the truth has to do with mercy.

It's linkage I'm talking about, and harmonies and structures, And all the various things that lock our wrists to the past.

What is art? Art grows from joy and sorrow, but mostly from sorrow. It grows from human lives.

Don’t worry about a style. It will creep up on you and eventually you will have to undo it in order to go further.

Like every girl, I felt amazing pressure to look like the popular girls, but no one told me the popular girls were all air brushed in magazines.

Everything has a meaning, if only we could read it.

The authentic religion teaches you to discover your immortality, to discover the god within you.

I think people who love each other and live together and have children together need to agree on the things that are most important in life.