Sweetest smile is made saddest tear-drop!

There is no caste in blood.

Almond blossom, sent to teach us That the spring days soon will reach us.

No power on earth compares to a mother's tender prayers.

Not a piece of architecture, as other buildings are, but the proud passions of an emperor's love wrought in living stones.

Pity and need Make all flesh kin. There in no caste in blood.

One can be a soldier without dying and a lover without sighing.

Within yourself deliverance must be searched for, because each man makes hiw own prison.

The royal kingcup bold Dares not don his coat of gold.

Early violets blue and white Dying for their love of light.

Don't poets know it Better than others? God can't be always everywhere: and, so, Invented Mothers

Reading a good book is an escape to an alternative life, writing a good book is the closest thing to actually living that life.

Maybe I'll obey the rules. Some of them, anyway, who knows? What are you going to do if I don't, by the way, and haven't I asked you this before?

The more modest its intellectual ballast, the more exclusively it takes into consideration the emotions of the masses, the more effective [propaganda] will be.

We're all capable of mistakes, but I do not care to enlighten you on the mistakes we may or may not have made.

I tried to contribute to the defeat of the Soviets. If I contributed 1%, it is 1% of something enormous.

When you have a baby, sleep is not an option. You can't sleep. Even on vacation, you wake up at 6:30 a.m.

Creation implies authority in the sense of originator.

My dad died when I was three so my mom had to raise four kids on her own, and I think there's a part of me that pulls upon having watched my mom do that our whole lives. She had to make it work.

My father taught me to paint when I was young with watercolors and so I learned at a very young age the essential elements of the value of light and composition.

Perfect knowledge comes only when you see the world in yourself, just as he who awakes from the dream then knows he saw his dream-world with its suns and stars in himself.