THE WISDOM OF THE SPHERESHow instructiveis a star!It can teach usfrom afarjust how smalleach other are.

Nature, it seems, is the popular namefor milliards and milliards and milliardsof particles playing their infinite gameof billiards and billiards and billiards.

Lovers meander in prose and rhyme, trying to say-for the thousandth time-what's easier done than said.

Put up in a placewhere it is easy to seethe cryptic admonishmentT.T.TWhen you feel how depressinglyslowly you climbit's well to remember thatThings Take Time.

Shepherds use religion to fight wars, sheep fight over religion.

Art is solving problems that cannot be formulated before they have been solved. The shaping of the question is part of the answer.

Living isa thing you donow or never --which do you?

WHO IS LEARNED? A definition One who, consuming midnight oilin studies diligent and slow, teaches himself, with painful toil, the things that other people know.

Losing one glove is certainly painful, but nothing compared to the pain, of losing one, throwing away the other, and finding the first one again.

CANDLE WISDOM If you knewwhat you will knowwhen your candlehas burnt low, it would greatlyease your plightwhile your candlestill burns bright.

VITA BREVIS A lifetimeis morethansufficiently longfor people to get what there is of itwrong.

There’s nothing that makes an artist more beloved than the audience pitying him because his work comes at a price they would never pay.

It is much more sensible to be an optimist instead of a pessimist, for if one is doomed to disappointment, why experience it in advance?

This anonymous clan of slack-jawed troglodytes has cost me the election, and yet if I were to have them killed, I would be the one to go to jail. That's democracy for you.

Hiddenness is the place of purification. In hiddenness we find our true selves.

The "Be good" concept also comes up when we design our products. We want them to have positive social effects.

A commitment to love and justice demands the transformation of social structures as well as of hearts.

Entertainment and art have power. Our culture is molded more so by entertainment than any other influence.

Nowadays they say you need a special chip to put in the TV so kids can't watch this and that. In my day, we didn't need a chip. My mom was the chip. End of story.

Energy enables a man to force his way through irksome drudgery and dry details and caries him onward and upward to every station in life.

We are all equal before the law, but not before those appointed to applyit.