A translation in verse . . . seems to me something absurd, impossible.

Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.

It is not enough to be happy, one must be content.

Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

To love beauty is to see light.

An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise.

The future has several names. For the weak, it is impossible; for the fainthearted, it is unknown; but for the valiant, it is ideal.

Go out in the world and work like money doesn't matter, sing as if no one is listening, love as if you have never been hurt, and dance as if no one is watching.

When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right.

Music expresses that which cannot be put into words.

There is nothing like a dream to create the future.

Growth has failed on its own terms. You can't have infinite growth in a world of finite resources.

There is no doubt that our nation's security and defeating terrorism trump all other priorities.

I don't approach my writing or my work from an academic or analytical point of view. I do it for myself.

If you want to be a leader, you've got to be a reader.

Fear is that passion which hath the greatest power over us, and by which God and His laws take the surest hold of us.

Look to the Heavens, you can look to the skies. You can find redemption staring back into your eyes.

The new moon rode high in the crown of the metropolis. Shinin', like "Who on top of this?

Technology is Darwinian. It spreads. It evolves. It adapts. The most dangerous wipes out the less fit.

I don't like to go to strange places.

I'm like a mama's boy and stuff.