A lie that is half-truth is the darkest of all lies.

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.

If I had a flower for every time I thought of you...I could walk through my garden forever.

'Tis better to have loved and lost Than never to have loved at all.

The shell must break before the bird can fly.

Music that gentlier on the spirit lies, Than tired eyelids upon tired eyes.

For I dipped into the future, far as human eye could see, Saw the Vision of the world, and all the wonder that would be.

I am a part of all that I have met.

I must lose myself in action, lest I wither in despair.

There lives more faith in honest doubt, believe me, than in half the creeds.

The white flower of a blameless life.

Somebody, after all, had to make a start. What we wrote and said is also believed by many others. They just don't dare express themselves as we did.

And if there is still one hellish, truly accursed thing in our time, it is our artistic dallying with forms, instead of being like victims burnt at the stake, signaling through the flames.

I have that hypocrisy of a parent in that I'm like,'Come on, you've got to toughen up at the same time let me take care of that for you.

Speak with your own voice and be as unique as you possibly can.

Well, the first days are the hardest days, don't you worry anymore. When life looks like Easy Street there is danger at your door.

Every adult in the world has some sense that he or she might be obliterated at any time by these weapons that we have created.

Painters tend to ignore the challenges and thrills that sculptors enjoy daily - volume... like the perfect, imperfect voluminous oval of the egg.

I realized that if what we call human nature can be changed, then absolutely anything is possible. From that moment my life changed.

We seem to be young, in a very old Galaxy. We're like kids tiptoeing through a ruined mansion.