Poetry is in itself strength and joy, whether it be crowned by all mankind, or left alone in its own magic hermitage.

Instinct is intelligence incapable of self-consciousness.

Pain has its own noble joy, when it starts a strong consciousness of life, from a stagnant one.

Colors answer feeling in man; shapes answer thought; and motion answers will.

One dupe is as impossible as one twin.

The worst education which teaches self-denial, is better than the best which teaches everything else, and not that.

Enthusiasm is grave, inward, self-controlled; mere excitement, outward, fantastic, hysterical, and passing in a moment from tears to laughter.

Emotion turning back on itself, and not leading on to thought or action, is the element of madness.

Faith in a better than that which appears is no less required by art than by religion.

A man without earnestness is a mournful and perplexing spectacle. But it is a consolation to believe, as we must of such a one, that he is the most effectual and compulsive of all schools.

Man is a substance clad in shadows.

You are not the victim of the world, but rather the master of your own destiny. It is your choices and decisions that determine your destiny.

Music replays the past memories, awaken our forgotten worlds and make our minds travel.

What is a diary as a rule? A document useful to the person who keeps it dull to the contemporary who reads it and invaluable to the student centuries afterwards who treasures it!

America must be the teacher of democracy, not the advertiser of the consumer society. It is unrealistic for the rest of the world to reach the American living standard.

Obama is defining himself in a way that will destroy him.

I think folk music helps reinforce your sense of history. An old song makes you think of times gone by.

I too hope in this short reign to be a man of peace.

I would suggest that gluten tends to be tied to carbs. And I try to balance my carbs and my proteins and my fats.

The Democrat Party can't provide, can't take care of, cannot provide prosperity for people.

Romances in general are calculated rather to fire the imagination, than to inform the judgment.