Genius is a promontory jutting out into the infinite.

Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.

It is not enough to be happy, one must be content.

Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

To love beauty is to see light.

An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise.

The future has several names. For the weak, it is impossible; for the fainthearted, it is unknown; but for the valiant, it is ideal.

Go out in the world and work like money doesn't matter, sing as if no one is listening, love as if you have never been hurt, and dance as if no one is watching.

When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right.

Music expresses that which cannot be put into words.

There is nothing like a dream to create the future.

The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party when the masks are dropped.

So the dubbed conceit Played nursery of cheat To clear the I of sleet.

Even though I don't believe in God, I feel strangely compelled to fight the atheist label.

There is no desert like being friendless.

If trouble comes when you least expect it then maybe the thing to do is to always expect it.

Books are the true means of acquiring talent. If one does not read one remains ignorant, and ignorance can never produce true painters.

If you have no eyes, do not walk blindly; take a staff in your hand. If you have no staff of insight, do not walk without a guide.

The search for one's first professional job is not unlike a magical love potion: when one wants to fall in love with the next thing one sees, one generally does.

I'm sorry." About what?" He shrugged, made uncomfortable by the question."I'm not sure. It's a Canadian thing.

Most innovation comes from outside your industry applied to your own