The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist.

A hero is one who knows how to hang on one minute longer.

Life must not be a novel that is given to us, but one that is made by us.

Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.

Where are we really going? Always home.

Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.

There is but one temple in the universe, and that is the body of man.

The mysterious path goes inward. It is in us, and not anywhere else, where the eternity of the worlds, the past and the future are found.

In cheerful souls there is no wit. Wit shows a disturbance of the equipoise.

When you understand how to love one thing, then you also understand how to love everything.

Nature is an aeolian harp, a musical instrument whose tones are the re-echo of higher strings within us.

Stay away from the underground lake I implore, The Siren will see you are heard of no more.

Right thing is usually clear and intuitive enough to feel in our gut.

A university is a city of ideas, and we're grateful you became citizens of our city.

Sometimes I snore, like when I get really tired.

Terrorism really doesn't strike at physical structures as much as it strikes at ideas, and its main fear is ideas. And cartoonists are particularly effective at distilling ideas.

Don't let other people's conversations about what you're doing or you've done be part of your own conversation.

You will fail. Then they will kill you." - Vandara to Kira, following Kira's trial.

Thus, dear friends, I have said it clearly enough, and I believe you ought to understand it and not make liberty a law.

And he realized... that fragile, mortal life wasn't just important to him. It was more important than his own.

Whenever one has anything unpleasant to say, one should always be quite candid.