Rain slips through your fingers as easily as words blow away in the wind, and yet it has the power to destroy your whole world.

I truly believed that the creation of hope was the greatest of all the arts, the noblest of all the lies.

They were just the ordinary sounds of of people beginning their day, silly raucous, discordant, but they were the most beautiful sounds on earth, the sounds of living people.

Hope is a beautiful lie and it requires talent to create it for others.

Miracles are like murders. After the first one, each becomes easier than the last for, with each success, the miracle-worker's certainty in himself becomes stronger.

Hope itself is always genuine. It's only what it's placed in that can prove to be false.

You got a lot but you just waste all yourself. They'll forget your name soon and won't nobody be to blame but yourself.

Nothing is more generally known than the duties which belong to christianity; and yet, how amazing is it, nothing is less practised?

Art is not a democracy, in fact art is the enemy of democracy

The world today is made, it is powered by science; and for any man to abdicate an interest in science is to walk with open eyes towards slavery.

The worst diets are ones that restrict your calories too much and try to trick your body. You have no energy, and it's ridiculous.

Is it not of the imagination that the sharpest pleasures arise?

We need a coat with two pockets. In one pocket there is dust, and in the other pocket there is gold. We need a coat with two pockets to remind us who we are.

A warming of this magnitude would risk the end of civilization as we know it by the end of this century.

Bulls and bears aren't responsible for as many stock losses as bumsteers.

They that soar too high, often fall hard.