I am thankful that thorns have roses.

Some people are always grumbling because roses have thorns; I am thankful that thorns have roses.

All people have three characters, that which they exhibit, that which they have, and that which they think they have.

The more things change, the more they stay the same.

Botany is the art of insulting flowers in Greek and Latin.

Love is the most terrible, and also the most generous of the passions; it is the only one which includes in its dreams the happiness of someone else.

Every man has three characters: that which he shows, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.

If we are to abolish the death penalty, I should like to see the first step taken by our friends the murderers.

Uncertainty is the worst of all evils until the moment when reality makes us regret uncertainty.

If men knew all that women think, they would be twenty times more audacious.

Avoid all haste; calmness is an essential ingredient of politeness.

Definitions from Mulla Do-PiazaFlattery:One of the most promising of businesses: always brisk.

My imagination and power are limitless. Nothing can stop me from achieving my dreams.

I've had great success and I've had catastrophic failure. It's really how you handle the rough stuff that defines you, I think.

High Times magazine is a notch intellectually below Highlights for Children. I mean, they're both great to read when you're baked, but come on, ya know.

Well, I don't use the toilet much to pee in. I almost always pee in the yard or the garden, because I like to pee on my estate.

Every young artist has to do it one way, his [or her] way, and the hell with patterns. Remember who you are and where you are and what you are doing.... And never take advice, including this.

A wave isn't like a skate ramp or mountain; everything's moving around, and you have to time how to move along with it. That's easier with a slow wave.

The world must become romanticized, and in that way we find again its original meaning for us.

Never believe fate is more than the condensation of childhood.

Art achieves all little things by absolute truth: but all her great things need some admixture of illusion.