Death is no more than passing from one room into another. But there's a difference for me, you know. Because in that other room I shall be able to see.

Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow.

The only thing worse than being blind is having sight and no vision.

No one has a right to consume happiness without producing it.

The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision.

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart.

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.

Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.

Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.

Often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.

Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye.

The worst kind of oppression is when the victims think and talk in the language of their oppressors.

There are no differences but differences of degree between different degrees of difference and no difference.

There are things they tell us that sound good to hear, but when they have accomplished their purpose they will go home and will not try to fulfill our agreements with them.

Love is more than an emotion, it is a decision.

I should have considered it wrong to have finished the Frieze before the room for its accommodation and the funds for its completion were available.

Man must vanquish himself, must do himself violence, in order to perform the slightest action untainted by evil.

In anything there has to be dark and light. There's a lot of joy in my paintings and a lot of darkness.

Friendship is the highest degree of perfection in society.

The CIA is an incompetent bureaucracy, generally.

Pulque - lightning nectar for the Gods.