In this, our age of infamy Man's choice is but to be A tyrant, traitor, prisoner: No other choice has he.

It is better to have dreamed a thousand dreams that never were than never to have dreamed at all.

Don't be sad, don't be angry, if life deceives you! Submit to your grief - your time for joy will come, believe me.

Fearing no insult, asking for no crown, receive with indifference both flattery and slander, and do not argue with a fool.

The less we show our love to a woman, Or please her less, and neglect our duty, The more we trap and ruin her surely, In the flattering toils of philandery.

Then came a moment of renaissance, I looked up - you again are there, A fleeting vision, the quintessence Of all that's beautiful and rare.

Better the illusions that exalt us than ten thousand truths.

I’ve lived to bury my desires, And see my dreams corrode with rust; Now all that’s left are fruitless fires That burn my empty heart to dust.

Somewhere between obsession and compulsion is impulse.

A deception that elevates us is dearer than a host of low truths.

I want to understand you, I study your obscure language.

Pleasure is the object duty and the goal of all rational creatures.

Great men are they who see that the spiritual is stronger than any material force that thoughts rule the world.

Drawing is a way of coming upon the connection between things, just like metaphor in poetry reconnects what has become separated.

The old style hypocrite was a person who tried to appear better than he actually was; the new style hypocrite tries to appear worse than he or she is.

In time they could not even fly after their hats. Want of practice, they called it; but what it really meant was that they no longer believed.

the power of a text is not time-bound. The words go on doing their work.

Sometimes just a smile on our face can help to make this world a better place.

Firing people is one of the worst parts of running a company. Actually in my own experience, I think it is the worst.

One reason why so many Christians today don't know the Old Testament is because their 'gospel' doesn't even need it.

A note can be as small as a pin or as big as the world, it depends on your imagination.