In literature and art memory is a synonym for invention. It is the life-blood of imagination, which faints and dies when the veins are empty.

A first book has some of the sweetness of a first love.

The ponderous tomes are bales of the mind's merchandise.

Whatever is beautiful is also profitable.

Taste is often one of the aspects of fashion.

The light of genius never sets, but sheds itself upon other faces, in different hues of splendor. Homer glows in the softened beauty of Virgil, and Spenser revives in the decorated learning of Gray.

To study history is to study literature.

Taste is improved by cultivation.

The drama is the book of the people.

It is supposable that, in the eyes of angels, a struggle down a dark lane and a battle of Leipsic differ in nothing but excess of wickedness.

The exhibition of real strength is never grotesque. Distortion is the agony of weakness. It is the dislocated mind whose movements are spasmodic.

Not only do self-love and love of others go hand in hand but ultimately they are indistinguishable.

It is very hard to trace the effect of words on a life.

You perceive yourself as being solid and physical, limited to a body. You are made up of light, endless mind. The way you see life is a limited state of mind.

Business is good right now, but now my personal life is a disaster.

A story matrix connects all of us. There are rules, processes, and circles of responsibility in this world. And the story begins exactly where it is supposed to begin. We cannot skip any part.

There is truth in the high opinion that in so far as a man conforms, he ceases to exist.

For me, acting is doing.

Experimenting with different sounds is great, but when it comes down to it, you're still playing a guitar.

If you don't follow a good nutritional plan, you're bodybuilding with one arm behind your back.

Sheer effort enables those with nothing to surpass those with privilege and position