People who sacrifice beauty for efficiency get what they deserve. (Bernard Mickey Wrangle, p 99)

Reality whistles a different tune underwater.

We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love.

Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.

Religion is not merely the opium of the masses, it's the cyanide.

In the haunted house of life, art is the only stair that doesn't creak.

The beet is the most intense of vegetables

Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.

It is better to be small, colorful, sexy, careless, and peaceful.

To achieve the impossible; it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.

We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from ourselves.

Music escapes from words: that is its purpose, and its majesty.

What is done in God is done forever.

Those who don't try are destine for failure

I—I don’t drink, ” said Shina. The Captain clicked her tongue. “Well, I don’t know your life, ” she said, “but that might be part of your greater overall problem.

Millions of people die every day. Everyone's got to go sometime.

When I think about the stuff I turned down it's kind of insane.

The major reason for setting a goal is for what it makes of you to accomplish it. What it makes of you will always be the far greater value than what you get.

I always looked up to Michael [Jackson] because he was never afraid to just be himself, never tried to be anything that he wasn't.

If treachery is the reward of trust, will the man who trusts come to harm?

The child that never learns to obey his parents in the home will not obey God or man out of the home.