If we value so highly the dignity of life, how can we not also value the dignity of death No death may be called futile.

Perfect purity is possible if you turn your life into a line of poetry written with a splash of blood.

True beauty is something that attacks, overpowers, robs, and finally destroys.

Nobody even imagines how well one can lie about the state of one’s own heart.

Young people get the foolish idea that what is new for them must be new for everybody else too. No matter how unconventional they get, they're just repeating what others before them have done.

Beauty is something that burns the hand when you touch it.

The special quality of hell is to see everything clearly down to the last detail.

By means of microscopic observation and astronomical projection the lotus flower can become the foundation for an entire theory of the universe and an agent whereby we may perceive Truth.

For an artist to do creative work, he needs at once physical health and some physiomental ill health. He needs both serenity and gloom.

Anything can become excusable when seen from the standpoint of the result

As long as you know I am waiting, take your time flowers of the spring.

I loathe a friend whose gratitude grows old, a friend who takes his friend's prosperity but will not voyage with him in his grief

The city knows you better than any living person because it has seen you when you are alone.

If I haven't received any grace today, then I was not at home. This is because God is sending deliveries constantly.

If there is one doctrine I have preached more than another, it is the doctrine of the Perseverance of the Saints even to the end.

Acts have their being in the witness. Without him who can speak of it? In the end one could even say that the act is nothing, the witness all.

My father was a deeply sentimental man. And like all sentimental men, he was also very cruel.

By working in the morning, I find a sense of peace; it's isolated peace, but I can definitely be in touch with my feelings, and then I just start.

Journalism is a giant catapult set in motion by pigmy hatreds.

Tribes must be our homes, not our prisons.

Winning does not tempt that man. This is how he grows: by being defeated, decisively, by constantly greater beings.