People want what was best about the world.

There are certain qualities of light that blur the years.

First we only want to be seen, but once we’re seen, that’s not enough anymore. After that, we want to be remembered.

What I mean to say is, the more you remember, the more you’ve lost.

If you are the light, if your enemies are darkness, then there’s nothing that you cannot justify. There’s nothing you can’t survive, because there’s nothing that you will not do.

No one ever thinks they’re awful, even people who really actually are. It’s some sort of survival mechanism.

I stood looking over my damaged home and tried to forget the sweetness of life on Earth.

Hell is the absence of the people you long for.

Love is like the lion’s tooth.

If nothing else, it's pleasant to consider the possibility. He likes the thought of ships moving over the water, toward another world just out of sight.

To survive is not enough. To simply exist... is not enough!' - Roga Danar

The happiest people I have known have been those who gave themselves no concern about their own souls, but did their uttermost to mitigate the miseries of others.

The Admiral so regrets failure, he cannot THINK of success.

The moon in her chariot of pearl

Religion is civilization, the highest.

President Bush should be indicted and should be driven out of office. He should be sent back home in Texas.

I could never teach people to be philosophers - and if I did, you could never make a gardener out of them.

The Mum has the temper of a demon with a diaper rash. (Shamus)

Don't let anyone tell you what you can or cannot do, or cannot achieve. Do. Not. Allow. It.

Maybe we can use a metaphor for it, out of dance. I think for many years I was aware of the need, in dance and in life, to breathe deeply and to take in more air than we usually take in.

We justify ourselves when we should judge ourselves. If we learned humility, it might spare us the humiliation.