Of puns it has been said that those most dislike who are least able to utter them.

The scariest monsters are the ones that lurk within our souls.

I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.

There is no beauty without some strangeness

All suffering originates from craving, from attachment, from desire.

The believer is happy. The doubter is wise.

All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.

Years of love have been forgot, In the hatred of a minute.

And so, being young and dipt in folly, I fell in love with melancholy.

I remained too much inside my head and ended up losing my mind.

They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.

Don't say negative things about your spouse and children.

Let your life challenge your sacred existence.

In every passerby, everywhere - Christ . . . He is in everyone - there can be no outcasts.

Politicians think that if matters look difficult, compromise is a good approach. Unfortunately, nature and the laws of physics cannot compromise - they are what they are.

The fetters imposed on liberty at home have ever been forged out of the weapons provided for defense against real, pretended, or imaginary dangers from abroad.

You can easily determine the caliber of a person by the amount of opposition it takes to discourage him or her.

The power of thought is extremely powerful.

My definition of success is doing what you love. I feel many people do things because they feel they have to, and are hesitant to risk following their passion.

When I arrived at the point where I received public acclaim, I felt the most lowly, because I knew within myself that I had but begun to tap my inner resources.

Thy words, I grant are bigger, for I wear not, my dagger in my mouth.