Melancholy and sadness are the start of doubt... doubt is the beginning of despair; despair is the cruel beginning of the differing degrees of wickedness.

Although according to certain philosophers it is quite difficult to distinguish the jester from the melancholic, life itself being a comic drama or a dramatic comedy.

As beautiful as the chance encounter of a sewing machine and an umbrella on an operating table.

Poetry must be made by all and not by one.

Taste is the fundamental quality which sums up all other qualities. It is the ne plus ultra of the intelligence.

I will leave no memoirs.

Arithmetic! Algebra! Geometry! Grandiose trinity! Luminous triangle! Whoever has not known you is without sense!

It is a power stronger than will. Could a stone escape from the laws of gravity? Impossible. Impossible, for evil to form an alliance with good.

Farewell until eternity, where you and I shall not find ourselves together.

Real sorrow is incompatible with hope. No matter how great that sorrow may be, hope raises it one hundred cubits higher.

If you are going to start, don't quit. But if you are going to quit, don't even start!

Life leaps like a geyser for those willing to drill through the rock of inertia.

We are all writing God's poem.

A man's action is only a picture book of his creed.

Some say that Jesus is the rock, or the anchor. I say that your friends and family are your anchor. And you can REALLY hold their hands, not just sing about it. No disrespect to George Jones.

Dr. S. Dillon Ripley, secretary of the Smithsonian Institute, believes that in 25 years, somewhere between 75 and 80 percent of all the species of living animals will be extinct.

Reality TV rots people's brains.

Everything all of us do is stolen from somebody.

The light ones may be killers, the dark ones mild; not the wrappers but the fillers, make cigars or women wild.

There is absolutely no point in sitting around and feeling sorry for yourself. The great power you have is to let go ... focus on what you have, no that which has been mean or unkindly removed.