As a means of contrast with the sublime, the grotesque is, in our view, the richest source that nature can offer.

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.

Our greatest fear as individuals & as a church should not be of failure, but of suceeding at things in life that dont really matter.

Any pain that human beings can create, human beings can transcend.

Art is beauty, the perpetual invention of detail, the choice of words, the exquisite care of execution.

Optimism may sometimes be delusional, but pessimism is always delusional.

The complete man must work, study and wrestle.

If there is a single trait in our character that has historically set us apart from other nations, it is our determination to limit the authority of those who rule over us.

I can still smell the tear gas in the Hilton Hotel.

If you really want it, you need to really work for it.

Scouting is important. You just want to know whom you are playing against and how to play them well within the team's defense.

Children of a culture born in a water-rich environment, we have never really learned how important water is to us. We understand it, but we do not respect it.