Our dream dashes itself against the great mystery like a wasp against a window pane. Less merciful than man, God never opens the window.

Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired.

Love is like an hourglass, with the heart filling up as the brain empties.

On earth there is no heaven, but there are pieces of it.

As I grow to understand life less and less, I learn to love it more and more.

An optimist is a driver who thinks that empty space at the curb won't have a hydrant beside it.

Wrinkles are engraved smiles.

I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.

Everything you want is out there waiting for you to ask. Everything you want also wants you. But you have to take action to get it.

Walks. The body advances, while the mind flutters around it like a bird.

Failure is not our only punishment for laziness; there is also the success of others.

Let my toes teach the shore how to feel a tranquil lifethrough the wetness of sands Let my heart latch the doorof blackness, as all my pain now blue sky understands

Visionary Fiction speaks the language of the soul. It offers a vision of humanity as we dream it could be.

The seventh element is ‘consciousness’ that raises a human from the basic corporeal state and takes them to super-consciousness.

I see dance being used as communication between body and soul, to express what it too deep to find for words.

I always consider every album to be a snapshot.

So you're quite right that when... as the Cold War grew and expanded out of Europe, we ourselves had to take refuge behind the shield of the Monroe Doctrine.

Why can we remember the tiniest detail that has happened to us, and not remember how many times we have told it to the same person.

Radical historians now the tell the story of Thanksgiving from the point of view of the turkey.

The strength of the Democratic Party of Cook County is not something that just happened.

I prefer to work alone – except in the bedroom. (Steele)