All food must be capable of being digested, and that what produces digestion is warmth; that is why everything that has soul in it possesses warmth.

It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.

Happiness depends upon ourselves.

Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.

Adventure is worthwhile.

Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.

Be a free thinker and don't accept everything you hear as truth. Be critical and evaluate what you believe in.

Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.

Criticism is something we can avoid easily by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.

One eye open. One still in a dream

Under a sky that hasn't been blue for weeks.

Monsters were one thing. She was used to monsters, she could deal with monsters. A noise in the darkness, with nothing attached to it, was another.

The American story is a story of great moments and dreadful moments.

The poor man must walk to get meat for his stomach, the rich man to get a stomach to his meat.

If you want to win, do the ordinary things better than anyone else does them day in and day out.

Truth-tellers are not always palatable. There is a preference for candy bars.

I am who I am. I can't pretend to be somebody who makes $25,000 a year.

The art market is global now, and theres becoming more of an international consensus about what constitutes good art.

Richmond has fallen - and I have no heart to write about it... They are too many for us. Everything lost in Richmond, even our archives. Blue-black is our horizon.