Boys should abstain from all use of wine until their eighteenth year for it is wrong to add fire to fire.

Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire emotion and knowledge.

Science is nothing but perception.

Reality is created by the mind. We can change our reality by changing our mind.

If you do not take an interest in the affairs of your government, then you are doomed to live under the rule of fools.

A wise man speaks because he has something to say; a fool because he has to say something.

No one is more hated than he who speaks the truth.

Don't force your children into your ways, for they were created for a time different from your own.

Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.

Reality is created by the mind, we can change our reality by changing our mind.

Enjoy life. There's plenty of time to be dead. Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle.

Modest plainness sets off sprightly wit, For works may have more with than does 'em good, As bodies perish through excess of blood.

Who judges best of a Man, his Enemies or himself?

I'm not the girl to keep all the emotions I have inside. I guess I have to pay lots of fines because that's the way I am.

The only thing I know is that I paint because I need to, and I paint whatever passes through my head without any other consideration.

This is how it has been since time began: If you want to make something really worthwhile and true, then you have to suffer for it.

He who loves has conquered the world and has no fear of losing anything. True love is an act of total surrender.

Someone wrote a piece about Henry Green in The Partisan Review that was so intriguing that I got one of his novels, Loving, I believe, which was the first that came to attention in the United States.

But, when it comes to global warming, the public- at-large really doesn't know whom to believe anymore. And NASA has contributed to that confusion.

You have but mistook me all the while... I live by bread like you, taste grief, feel want, need friends. Conditioned thus how can you call me king?

I would start a revolution, but I just bought a hammock.