Nobody even imagines how well one can lie about the state of one’s own heart.

Perfect purity is possible if you turn your life into a line of poetry written with a splash of blood.

True beauty is something that attacks, overpowers, robs, and finally destroys.

Young people get the foolish idea that what is new for them must be new for everybody else too. No matter how unconventional they get, they're just repeating what others before them have done.

Beauty is something that burns the hand when you touch it.

The special quality of hell is to see everything clearly down to the last detail.

By means of microscopic observation and astronomical projection the lotus flower can become the foundation for an entire theory of the universe and an agent whereby we may perceive Truth.

For an artist to do creative work, he needs at once physical health and some physiomental ill health. He needs both serenity and gloom.

Anything can become excusable when seen from the standpoint of the result

As long as you know I am waiting, take your time flowers of the spring.

Human beings - they go on being born and dying, dying and being born. It's kind of boring, isn't it?

What if I were smiling and running into your arms? Would you see then what I see now?

When life hands you lemons say, "Lemons? What else have you got?"- bumper sticker

From cradle to grave, Talal sprinted through life.I never did see a life extinguished so abruptly.

Be stern in the council-chamber, [Show no weakness, and insist on your plans being ratified by the sovereign.] so that you may control the situation.

It happens all too often - people regret that their language and culture are being lost but at the same time decide not to saddle their own children with the chore of preserving them.

People always love it when you say their dogs are nice. Just shows you how out of touch they are.

The sun was shut up in a cold bottle.

Many persons of high intelligence have notoriously poor judgement.

I don't talk about my politics. I am registered as an independent.

It's pretty much what a lot of committed Catholics are making of [Pope Francis]. They're thrilled, they're refreshed, they think it's a breath of fresh air.