Between the reputation of the author living and the reputation of the same author dead there is ever a wide discrepancy.

A man is known by the company his mind keeps.

All the best sands of my life are somehow getting into the wrong end of the hourglass. If I could only reverse it! Were it in my power to do sowould I?

What is lovely never dies, but passes into other loveliness, Star-dust, or sea-foam, flower or winged air.

They fail, and they alone, who have not striven.

Civilization is the lamb's skin in which barbarism masquerades.

True art selects and paraphrases, but seldom gives a verbatim translation.

The possession of unlimited power will make a despot of almost any man. There is a possible Nero in the gentlest human creature that walks.

But I, in the chilling twilight stand and wait At the portcullis, at thy castle gate, Longing to see the charmed door of dreams Turn on its noiseless hinges, delicate sleep!

What probing deep Has ever solved the mystery of sleep?

Come watch with me the shaft of fire that glows in yonder West; the fair, frail palaces, The fading Alps and archipelagoes and great cloud continents of sunset-seas.

There are 1, 440 minutes in every day. How are you using yours?

Who would ever give up the reality of dreams for relative knowledge?

You can increase your capacity to absorb the mystical kundalini. I have 3 or 4 students who are on the path of mysticism, they can absorb more of it.

The dawn speeds a man on his journey, and speeds him too in his work.

Baby, black promoters oppressed me before white promoters ever got hold of me. Don't talk skin to me.

The only reason people die, is because EVERYONE does it. You all just go along with it. It's RUBBISH, death. It's STUPID. I don't want nothing to do with it.

All over the world, people want to know what kind of people Texans are, and I explain that Texans are America's ideal Americans.

Art is what remains of religion: the dance above the yawning abyss.

I am utterly bored by celebrity interviews. Most celebrities are devoid of interest.

The Internet has definitely opened doors and leveled the playing field for musicians.