It is the American vice, the democratic disease which expresses its tyranny by reducing everything unique to the level of the herd.

If there is to be any peace it will come through being, not having.

Whatever there be of progress in life comes not through adaptation but through daring.

In expanding the field of knowledge we but increase the horizon of ignorance.

A book lying idle on a shelf is wasted ammunition.

The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.

It is with the soul that we grasp the essence of another human being, not with the mind, nor even with the heart.

either you take in believing in miracles or you stand still like the hummingbird.

Chaos is the score upon which reality is written.

Art is only a means to life, the life more abundant. It merely points the way.

Man has demonstrated that he is master of everything - except his own nature.

Chance is life's only certainty.

...the student of prehistoric man...cannot reject [the Castenedolo skull] as false without doing injury to his sense of truth, and he cannot accept it as fact without shattering his accepted beliefs.

Reggie, you wrapped your sports car around a telephone pole after drinking a bar." "Yeah... But I was wearing my seatbelt.

We call them faerie. We don't believe in them. Our loss.

I'm pretty happy. I obviously have complaints about things, but for the most part, I'm on the above-average side of happy people.

Errors like straws upon the surface flow, Who would search for pearls to be grateful for often must dive below.

Inertia is the first law of history, as it is of physics.

If the election had turned out differently, I could be the one overseeing the signing of bailout checks and Vice President Biden could be on the road selling his book 'Going Rogaine.'

I am really enjoying media arts and digital painting.

As women become more educated and confident, they can start adding their voice.