A man's true secrets are more secret to himself than they are to others.

Books have the same enemies as people: fire, humidity, animals, weather, and their own content.

Man's great misfortune is that he has no organ, no kind of eyelid or brake, to mask or block a thought, or all thought, when he wants to.

War: a massacre of people who don't know each other for the profit of people who know each other but don't massacre each other.

A poem is never finished, only abandoned.

Nothing beautiful can be summarized.

The universe is built on a plan the profound symmetry of which is somehow present in the inner structure of our intellect.

A great man is one who leaves others at a loss after he is gone.

Love is being stupid together.

The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.

Let us enrich ourselves with our mutual differences.

Practice is the golden bullet for hitting the target of excellence.

There’s something tightly woven throughout the fabric of our humanity that runs entirely opposite to the baser instinct of looking out for our own good.

They should be going to sleep, but good company is the enemy of sleep.

Happiness ... can exist only in acceptance.

For me, the biggest thing with money has always been independence - just the biggest.

The Bible, in which these things are taught, favors drunkenness, murder, slavery, lying, stealing and lechery.

I'm basically in every band I ever was in, and the songs, I still mean them all. I don't take anything back, so I do look after them to some degree. But my main focus is on what I'm doing now.

In some ways we want definitions that can help protect our own interpretations of the genre.

Emotion is the surest arbiter of a poetic choice, and it is the priest of all supreme unions in the mind

We are not loved because we are valued; we are valued because we are loved.