It is not without reason that fame is awarded only after death. The cloud-dust of notoriety which follows and envelops the men who drive with the wind bewilders contemporary judgment.

Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind.

Fate loves the fearless.

The devil loves nothing better than the intolerance of reformers.

All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.

One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning.

Light is the symbol of truth.

A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.

Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof.

The brain can be easy to buy, but the heart never comes to market.

Each day the world is born anew for him who takes it rightly.

Dogs are owned for their loyalty, but men are owned only because of their stupidity.

How sick i am! that thought Always comes to me with horror. Is it this strange for everybody? But such fugitive feelings have always been my metier.

The poet will write for his peers alone. He will remember only that he saw truth and beauty from his position, and expect the time when a vision as broad shall overlook the same field as freely.

I don't know myself. I don't know what I want or how I feel or how I should feeland I don't think I ever really have.

It's quite amazingly radical, what their [the Kochs] vision of America would be.

That's my policy - to be positive, to just hope that something will happen. If you start with all your fears, your receptivity is for the negative.

A neurosis is a secret that you don’t know you are keeping.

The real conflict, if any exists, is between two industrial systems.

Islam stands for the unity and brotherhood of mankind, and not for disrupting the oneness of the human family.

Anyone can rehearse and play constantly any song in the world.