In every village marked with little spire, Embowered in trees, and hardly known to fame.

A liar begins with making falsehood appear like truth, and ends with making truth itself appear like falsehood.

The proper means of increasing the love we bear our native country is to reside some time in a foreign one.

Jealousy is the fear or apprehension of superiority: envy our uneasiness under it.

Deference is the most complicate, the most indirect, and the most elegant of all compliments.

Hope is a flatterer, but the most upright of all parasites; for she frequents the poor man's hut, as well as the palace of his superior.

We may daily discover crowds acquire sufficient wealth to buy gentility, but very few that possess the virtues which ennoble human nature, and (in the best sense of the word) constitute a gentleman.

A statue in a garden is to be considered as one part of a scene or landscape.

Virtues, like essences, lose their fragrance when exposed.

The difference there is betwixt honor and honesty seems to be chiefly the motive; the mere honest man does that from duty which the man of honor does for the sake of character.

The world may be divided into people that read, people that write, people that think, and fox-hunters.

Wishing you a bucket of love and joy today and always.

The mystic, identifying neither with his-her race-religion-gender nor with any mind-made blunder, lives and dies in One's splendor.

No, I say, it's fine.Put a gun to my head and paint the wall with my brains. Just great, I say. Really.

...I don't want what other men see in you- you the you I want is invisible but it is the part of you I really love...

Answers comes only when questions are asked

Be a free thinker and don't accept everything you hear as truth. Be critical and evaluate what you believe in.

There are so many directors that I want to work with, but I can't tell you that there's one role. If I knew it, I would write it for myself.

If I made records for my own pleasure, I would only record Charley Patton songs.

Those who practice deserve your respect. If you respect them, you respect yourself. It's easy to be critical, but it does no good. What's important is to be supportive of all who practice.

The Muse visits during the process of creation, not before.