Mere elegance of language can produce at best but an empty renown.

Love is the crowning grace of humanity.

Five enemies of peace inhabit with us - avarice, ambition, envy, anger, and pride; if these were to be banished, we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace.

Death is a sleep that ends our dreaming. Oh, that we may be allowed to wake before death wakes us.

Perhaps out there, somewhere, someone is sighing for your absence; and with this thought, my soul begins to breathe.

Man has not a greater enemy than himself.

It is better to will the good than to know the truth.

Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.

All pleasure in the world is a passing dream.

Virtue is health, vice is sickness.

For though I am a body of this earth, my firm desire is born from the stars.

Your talent determines what you can do. Your motivation determines how much you are willing to do. Your attitude determines how well you do it.

Any kid will tell you that, yes, their music is both an escape and a survival mechanism, and that sometimes the music givesbthem hope and inspiration. It doesn't just placate and pacify.

It is a fact that one man can be deliriously happy in the exact situation that causes another man to wither from depression.

Illuminate the wonderful light within you.

a man who was, as we say in the restaurant business, one taco short of a combo platter.

I'm a painter, really. To be successful, you have to go to Hollywood, and I didn't like to travel.

It's not a revolution if nobody loses

Poor is a state of mind. Broke is, 'I'm just passing through.'

I don't think anyone can speculate what will happen with respect to oil prices and gas prices because they are set on the global economy.

Without language, one cannot talk to people and understand them; one cannot share their hopes and aspirations, grasp their history, appreciate their poetry, or savor their songs.