How many good books suffer neglect through the inefficiency of their beginnings!

The scariest monsters are the ones that lurk within our souls.

I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.

There is no beauty without some strangeness

All suffering originates from craving, from attachment, from desire.

The believer is happy. The doubter is wise.

All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.

Years of love have been forgot, In the hatred of a minute.

And so, being young and dipt in folly, I fell in love with melancholy.

I remained too much inside my head and ended up losing my mind.

They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.

At a time when the joy of living is more painful than imagining the beauty of eternal life, we leave our life behind.

If you just rely on one model, you tend to amputate reality to make it fit your model.

If from thy secret bed Of luxury unbidden offspring rise, Let them be kindly welcom'd to the day.

Mostly singing was cathartic, writing was cathartic, therapeutic. I don't think I had a goal, particularly, to sing or put it out there for anybody.

In business, there’s such a thing as an invaluable person, but no such thing as an indispensable one.

God being infinite beauty, the soul united to Christ draws upon himself the admiring and tender gaze of the Angels, who, were they capable of any passion, would be filled with envy at his lot.

A well-chosen anthology is a complete dispensary of medicine for the more common mental disorders, and may be used as much for prevention as cure.

Alone, no one wins freedom.

By giving children lots of affection, you can help fill them with love and acceptance of themselves. Then that's what they will have to give away.