From thought to thought, from mountain peak to mountain. Love leads me on; for I can never still My trouble on the world's well beaten ways.

Love is the crowning grace of humanity.

Five enemies of peace inhabit with us - avarice, ambition, envy, anger, and pride; if these were to be banished, we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace.

Death is a sleep that ends our dreaming. Oh, that we may be allowed to wake before death wakes us.

Perhaps out there, somewhere, someone is sighing for your absence; and with this thought, my soul begins to breathe.

Man has not a greater enemy than himself.

It is better to will the good than to know the truth.

Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.

All pleasure in the world is a passing dream.

Virtue is health, vice is sickness.

For though I am a body of this earth, my firm desire is born from the stars.

If thinking should precede acting, then acting must succeed thinking.

When you see honey in the bush and there are no sign of bees, flee!! for its all but a trap

Culture civilizes us, and that's why every single despotic regime has tried to smash [the arts].

If I do need to make money suddenly, I prefer to just draw something I want to draw and have someone else sell it for me on the Internet.

Thus Christian humanism is as indispensable to the Christian way of life as Christian ethics and a Christian sociology.

I think you always, as an artist, feel like you would like to be more and more specific about your intent and your interests.

I would like to learn to play the cello. I would like to paint. I would like to fully understand the concept of pi.

To me it's awe-inspiring ... All those billions of little evolutionary steps leading to this sensation of being "me."

I don't like second place; I'm out there trying to win everything.

I can usually judge a fellow by what he laughs at.