It is a terrible thing to be happy! How pleased we are with it! How all-sufficient we think it! How, being in possession of the false aim of life, happiness, we forget the true aim, duty!

Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.

It is not enough to be happy, one must be content.

Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

To love beauty is to see light.

An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise.

The future has several names. For the weak, it is impossible; for the fainthearted, it is unknown; but for the valiant, it is ideal.

Go out in the world and work like money doesn't matter, sing as if no one is listening, love as if you have never been hurt, and dance as if no one is watching.

When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right.

Music expresses that which cannot be put into words.

There is nothing like a dream to create the future.

some see things as they are: others as they are” (p.82) ~CXCI

Give A Child Some Measure Of Confidence And You Have Caused Him To Stand On Equal Footing With His Counterparts...

You have a faculty for defining the simplest in terms of the grandiose, so that a poor devil like me can't understand it.

Family: a foundation! Family: a ‘cloth’ keeps the ‘body’!

Have you seen that magazine Barely Legal? That means when you look at it, you're almost a pedophile.

Meryl Streep is on the program tonight. I like to throw her a little work whenever I can.

Of what good is democracy if it is not for the poor?

The worst tragedy for a poet is to be admired through being misunderstood.

The folly of mistaking oneself for an oracle is built right into us.

If you plant for a season, plant budgets. If you plant for a decade, plant reorganization, If you plant for a century, plant people