Be wise to-day; 't is madness to defer.

How blessings brighten as they take their flight.

Too low they build who build below the skies.

A soul without reflection, like a pile Without inhabitant, to ruin runs.

Narcissus is the glory of his race: For who does nothing with a better grace?.

How poor, how rich, how abject, how august, How complicate, how wonderful, is man!... Midway from nothing to the Deity!

Early, bright, transient, chaste as morning dew, She sparkled, was exhaled, and went to heaven.

The clouds may drop down titles and estates, and wealth may seek us, but wisdom must be sought.

Where boasting ends, there dignity begins.

Who lives to Nature, rarely can be poor ; who lives to fancy, never can be rich.

Leisure is pain; take off our chariot wheels; how heavily we drag the load of life!

Racism negates two aspects of man's life: reason and choice, or mind and morality, replacing them with chemical predestination.

Cowboys don’t go around breaking hearts.

Though thousand times a thousand in battle one may conquer, yet should one conquer just oneself, one is the greatest conqueror.

I hate funerals. They aren't for the guy who's dead. They're for the guys who are left alive and enjoy mourning.

I don't feel like taking pictures with anyone [or] doing anything. I just like chillin'.

I love lots of different types of music, but it's music that has this up-swelling of beauty and emotion that is most important to me.

Angels are able to know and understand better than the human intellect can, precisely because such knowledge and understanding comes to them by way of ideas infused in them by God.

I see my studio like a laboratory, where I work like an investigator - it's almost forensic. I love the discovery process in painting.

The only excuse for not coming to a class or a performance is death.

I have a living will and I have friends, and I have money and I have hope.