Every age must look for its sanction to its poetry and philosophy, for in these the human mind, as it looks backward or forward, attains to an eternal state.

People trample over flowers, yet only to embrace a cactus.

Shut your eyes and see.

Absence, the highest form of presence.

Mistakes are the portals of discovery.

There is not past, no future; everything flows in an eternal present.

Your mind will give back to you exactly what you put into it.

The supreme question about a work of art is out of how deep a life does it spring.

Think you're escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home.

I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.

All Moanday, Tearday, Wailsday, Thumpsday, Frightday, Shatterday.

Before that no one thought of us as colored-foreign maybe, exotic and dark, but not colored.

It's it, it's them it really doesn't matter. The languages are complex, as far I can tell.

Youth has many glories, but judgement is not one of them, and no amount of electronic amplification can turn a belch into an aria.

Oh, Celie, unbelief is a terrible thing. And so is the hurt we cause others unknowingly.

[A community chalkboard is] about knowing you're not alone. It's about understanding our neighbors in new and enlightening ways.

I'm born with a pencil in my hand. I did lots of sketching.

Securities fraud generally and insider trading in particular should be eminently deterrable crimes.

There is a shyness about me, and I really need to get out more.

I was the most subtle person in the world.

Even though Article IV of the Constitution says that treaties are the 'supreme law of the land,' in most instances they're not even law.