Fresh air is good if you do not take too much of it; most of the achievements and pleasures of life are in bad air.

Where we love is home - home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts.

Rough work, iconoclasm, but the only way to get at truth.

Youth fades, love droops, the leaves of friendship fall; A mother's secret hope outlives them all.

Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness.

A man may fulfill the object of his existence by asking a question he cannot answer, and attempting a task he cannot achieve.

It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.

Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow.

Man has his will, but woman has her way.

Many people die with their music still in them. Why is this so? Too often it is because they are always getting ready to live. Before they know it, time runs out.

Beware how you take away hope from any human being.

Never dull your shine for somebody else.

Social power is at stake in theory-making, but the workings of this power are often unacknowledged -- and overdeter

Is my life, by any chance, about to take a new turn?

Be grateful for the home you have, knowing that at this moment, all you have is all you need.

It is impossible for me to envisage a picture as being other than a window, and why my first concern is then to know what it looks out on.

I thought, 'My God, this is like Buddy Guy on acid.'

In order to do an empowerment, a person obviously has to be highly empowered, have the power, and also have the structural knowledge of how to transfer it to someone else.

I dare affirm that any artist... who has nothing singular, eccentric, or at least reputed to be so, in his person, will never become a superior talent.

What we say of a thing that has just come in fashion And that which we do with the dead, Is the name of the honestest man in the nation: What more of a man can be said?

Do you recognise me?" he asked. Willie looked hard and considered before finally replying "Lie down so I can recognise you.