The aim of life is self-development

I don't want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them.

Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic.

The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.

Oh, brothers! I don't care for brothers. My elder brother won't die, and my younger brothers seem never to do anything else.

If a man treats life artistically, his brain is his heart.

What fire does not destroy, it hardens

All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril.

Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives.

Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.

The basis of optimism is sheer terror.

No one can find God without having first been found by Him. A monk is a man who seeks God because he has been found by God.

The greatest gift to man is woman, But the greatest gift to woman is herself.

Sometimes we live as if we are blindfolded.

Today is yesterday's pupil.

You’ll finally realize the importance of the spark of that diamond when you lost it.

Taxes are the flip side of expenditures. The same issues apply on both sides. There are questions of fairness and justice as much in the way you take money away as in the way you disburse it.

If I did not love what is present, if I could not cling to this enormous, safe parachute, I would long since have fallen into the abyss.

A data scientist is that unique blend of skills that can both unlock the insights of data and tell a fantastic story via the data.

Guess the honeymoon is over!" Denise muttered once we are outside. "Next I suppose I'll be sleeping in the wet spot.

Texas is not a civilized place. Texans shoot one another a lot. They also knife, razor, and stomp one another to death with some frequency. And they fight in bars all the time.