Great Poets discover themselves. Little Poets have to be 'discovered' by somebody else.

Such lovely warmth of thought and delicacy of colour are beyond all praise, and equally beyond all thanks!

Let me be mad, then, by all means! mad with the madness of Absinthe, the wildest, most luxurious madness in the world! Vive la folie! Vive l'amour! Vive l'animalisme! Vive le Diable!

You should always be well and bright, for so you do your best work; and you have so much beautiful work to do. The world needs it, and you must give it!

Nothing gives small minds a better handle for hatred than superiority.

Flowers are like visible messages from God.

No one is contented in this world, I believe. There is always something left to desire, and the last thing longed for always seems the most necessary to happiness.

Wealth acts merely as a kind of mirror to show you human nature at its worst.

There is no wealth but love.

The Church is a system, - but whether it is as much founded on the teaching of our Lord, who was divine, as on the teaching of St. Paul, who was not divine, is a question to me of much perplexity.

Nothing is so deceptive as human reasoning, - nothing so slippery and reversible as what we have decided to call 'logic.' The truest compass of life is spiritual instinct.

Central Park is the grandiose symbol of the front yard each child in New York hasn't got.

Any problem can be made clearer with a picture, and any picture can be created using the same set of tools and rules.

I'm a flamboyant type of guy, a cooler version of Liberace.

When you stop trying to find the right man and start becoming the right woman, the right man will find his way to you.

even though the dead are beyond our touch, they remain fully dimensional, fully capable of affecting our decisions and quandaries.

To the contrary: His life hummed with meaning and purpose. But the meaning he wrested from existence lay beyond the comfortable path: McCandless distrusted the value of things that came easily.

I think I'm very easily inspired. People, wildlife, nature, music, art. I think that I'm lucky that I have this great sense of wonderment about life in general.

It's because when we sneeze, our soul flies out our nose and if no one says 'bless you,' the devil can snatch it.

I came to town thinking that everybody had the same idea of what country music was that I did.

And I, love, am a pathological liar.