I heard all things in the heaven and in the earth. I heard many things in hell. How, then, am I mad?

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.

This flawless night sky adorned with crystal pendant stars is nothing more than a fragile glass of potential - shattered only to those who dare to break through it.

The coach who goes home and doesn't think about the game he just lost is bound to repeat his mistakes.

Think about it: what weakens us is feeling offended by the deeds and misdeeds of our fellow men. Our self-importance requires that we spend most of our lives offended by someone.

Male friends do not always face each other; they stand side by side, facing the world.

The nuclear bomb took all the fun out of war.

If you can't make it go away, wait it out.

A lot of the things that we've been able to do in the last several years were Democratic ideas, including the structure for this new director of national intelligence.

This is the mark of a perfect character - to pass through each day as though it were the last, without agitation, without torpor, and without pretense.

We are African in origin and American in birth.

I've got a lot that I want to do, so I would like to expand my empire, for sure. I love it.