Beware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow.

It is not only fine feathers that make fine birds.

United we stand, divided we fall.

Every truth has two sides; it is as well to look at both, before we commit ourselves to either.

Better be wise by the misfortunes of others than by your own.

There's smoke in my iris, but I painted a sunny day on the insides of my eyelids

A doubtful friend is worse than a certain enemy. Let a man be one thing or the other, and we then know how to meet him.

We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.

No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.

The little reed, bending to the force of the wind, soon stood upright again when the storm had passed over.

It is thrifty to prepare today for the wants of tomorrow.

There's a cinematic quality that happens in my mind when I hear something that really lands. An album is just a journal of a life moving through time.

You are the crown of creation, and you've got no place to go.

I feel myself inhabited by a force or being -- very little known to me. It gives the orders; I follow.

The science is crystal clear: we humans are the primary cause of global warming, and we face a bleak future if we fail to act quickly.

I listen to Billy Joel. He is fabulous. I saw him with Elton John when they toured together, it was so great.

The Self cannot leave You. Awareness cannot leave You. Everything else will leave You. But Awareness is what You Are.

It's always interesting to step into the enemy's shoes, and figure out what they're like.

To accept reality is only to encourage it.

O how unspeakable is this Sacrament which sets our affections ablaze with charity. ... It is the fulfillment of Christ's Mystical Body.

Ornamental pattern work, to be raised above the contempt of reasonable men, must possess three qualities: beauty, imagination and order.