If you would live happily, do not exaggerate life's evils, nor slight her blessings.

Words are like eyeglasses they blur everything that they do not make clear.

Monuments are the grappling-irons that bind one generation to another.

The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.

Without the spiritual world the material world is a disheartening enigma.

The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk.

A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.

We find little in a book but what we put there. But in great books, the mind finds room to put many things.

The evening of life brings with it its lamps.

He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet.

Close your eyes and you will see.

The boy I was craved Kat. The man I am craves Milla.

The greatness of a nation can be judged by the way its animals are treated.

As a kid, I thought of myself as a funny person who secretly wanted to be serious, but now I think maybe I'm a serious person who secretly wants to be funny.

I always say if the marathon is a part-time interest, you will only get part-time results.

I want to be an artist that everyone can relate to, that's young, happy and fun.

I'm possibly a very morbid person but I think about death a lot.

I used to use a lot of words in the paintings but stopped because it created a narrative - or an answer to a question.

I read that Hollywood wanted to film Fences years ago with a white director, but [August] Wilson refused. He thought that the director needed to have lived the culture of black Americans.

Practice peace, change your world.

I used to like reading and you read enough books and you overflow and then you start writing.