Not failure but low aim is crime.

Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind.

Fate loves the fearless.

The devil loves nothing better than the intolerance of reformers.

All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.

One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning.

Light is the symbol of truth.

A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.

Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof.

The brain can be easy to buy, but the heart never comes to market.

Each day the world is born anew for him who takes it rightly.

I had learned quickly that life doesn't always go the way I want it to, and that's okay. I still plod on.

Tomorrow gets better if you get today better.

The gross evil of our time defies all labels.

In America, through pressure of conformity, there is freedom of choice, but nothing to choose from.

I like writing on piano and a computer, and a lot of 'Plans' came out of samples and vocal lines.

Things become complicated if there are enough people to complexify them.

Stressing and obsessing over your vision blocks it.

Education teaches people how to think, while propaganda teaches people what to think.

So will I build my altar in the fields, And the blue sky my fretted dome shall be, And the sweet fragrance that the wild flower yields Shall be the incense I will yield to thee.

There's a lot of things people think they can't do and then discover they can when they find themselves tight-wired.