Most joyful let the Poet be, it is through him that all men see.

Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.

The world is governed by opinion.

Fix your eyes on perfection and you make almost everything speed towards it.

We smile at the ignorance of the savage who cuts down the tree in order to reach its fruit; but the same blunder is made by every person who is over eager and impatient in the pursuit of pleasure.

Every human being is intended to have a character of his own; to be what no others are, and to do what no other can do.

May your life preach more loudly than your lips.

Every mind was made for growth, for knowledge, and its nature is sinned against when it is doomed to ignorance.

Nothing which has entered into our experience is ever lost.

All virtue lies in individual action, in inward energy, in self determination. There is no moral worth in being swept away by a crowd even toward the best objective.

It is not the quantity but the quality of knowledge which determines the mind's dignity.

I’ve got to stop looking at you, like you light my world. You’re the dark cloud which brings the rain. You’re the hurricane which destroys my peace. You are not the sun. I am my own light.

Oh, how we could blossom if we didn't have to fight to the death to merely exist!

I like to pretend that my art has nothing to do with me.

I never killed anyone with my tuba.

I've never been interested in, much in the politics of the art world, it doesn't interest me.

Hiding places there are innumerable, escape is only one, but possibilities of escape, again, are as many as hiding places.

You can't be somebody that you're not, because all of you shows up.

If it is in the highest good for all life everywhere.

If you say "I'm going to be an actor, but I'll get a teaching degree just in case," when things get hard, you'll just be a teacher and that's how you get stuck.

Crash programs fail because they are based on theory that, with nine women pregnant, you can get a baby in a month.