My religion of life is always to be cheerful.

The season of love is the carnival of egoism and it brings a touchstone to our natures.

Earth knows no desolation. She smells regeneration in the moist breath of decay.

A witty woman is a treasure; a witty beauty is a power.

There is nothing the body suffers which the soul may not profit by.

Who rises from prayer a better man, his prayer is answered.

Caricature is rough truth.

Lowly, with a broken neck, The crocus lays her cheek to mire.

Lovely are the curves of the white owl sweeping Wavy in the dusk lit by one large star. Lone on the fir-branch, his rattle-note unvaried, Brooding o'er the gloom, spins the brown eve-jar.

We are betrayed by what is false within

Perfect simplicity is unconsciously audacious.

In the modern world of business, it is useless to be a creative, original thinker unless you can also sell what you create.

My relationship with my mom is really the single most profound relationship that I've ever had in my life.

The sort of movies I make are not ones that can easily be sold upfront, so I have to make them and prove their mettle before I can sell them.

I think that anything that has privileges have responsibility and all people that is clear about their responsibility has compromise.

You can't play forever.

Sound, and therefore music, can help shape or reshape our thoughts, even our cells.

A selfish basis would not serve the purpose of taking a man higher and higher along the paths of evolution.

We were not designed to be dominated.

Time is not something that can be measured with a pendule. Time is something that we build together within a tribe, a family, a region.