In cheerful souls there is no wit. Wit shows a disturbance of the equipoise.

A hero is one who knows how to hang on one minute longer.

Life must not be a novel that is given to us, but one that is made by us.

Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.

Where are we really going? Always home.

Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.

There is but one temple in the universe, and that is the body of man.

The mysterious path goes inward. It is in us, and not anywhere else, where the eternity of the worlds, the past and the future are found.

When you understand how to love one thing, then you also understand how to love everything.

Nature is an aeolian harp, a musical instrument whose tones are the re-echo of higher strings within us.

Character and fate are two words for the same thing

...the other's self, that enormous hulking thing each possessed, that a self of course is not inconsequential. p124

Inspiration doesn't always come in chronological order.

I think every artist should follow their vision, their hearts is what they need to reveal, not something that society is looking out for.

London. Another terrorist attack and ISIS claimed credit. I am surprised because I thought we had wiped out ISIS on day one as Donald Trump said.

Just being with dogs, I learned their ways and began to appreciate things from their point of view.

The stool of repentance and the foot of the cross are the favorite positions of instructed Christians.

I earn and pay my own way as a great many women do today. Why should unmarried women be discriminated against - unmarried men are not.

Appetite comes with eating.....but thirst goes away with drinking.

Aaron Spelling went further than anyone has ever gone for television.

We cannot escape the clear fact that what is going to win in this world is reason, if this ever becomes a reasonable world.