The artist writes, paints, sings or dances the burden of some idea or feeling off his mind.

Degenerates are not always criminals, prostitutes, anarchists and pronounced lunatics; they are often authors and artists

If I despised myself, it would be no compensation if everyone saluted me, and if I respect myself, it does not trouble me if others hold me lightly.

The first condition a community should set, if it aspires to be a nation, is to own the land whereon it lives, and supply its own needs.

It is well to be alone. It fertilizes the creative impulse.

[H]istory is a melodrama on the theme of parasitism, characterized by scenes that are exciting or dull, as the case may be, and many a sudden stagetrick.

The electrical grounding system is the largest radio frequency (RF) radiation antenna system ever constructed in the history of mankind.

I had walked into that reading-room a happy, healthy man. I crawled out a decrepit wreck.

Stop moping, sule," galladon said with a grunt."It doesn't suit you-it takes a fine sense of pessimism to brood with any sort of respectability.

You know, if you think about it, the most powerful people on this earth probably never raise their voices - they just say it and people hop to, because they have that power.

I am slow-thinking and full of interior rules that act as brakes on my desires.

We are not the same, I am a martian.

Happiness is not bought by money, but it can buy circumstances and conditions that improve the chances of a worldly kind of happiness.

So true it is, that nature has caprices which art cannot imitate.

History never repeats itself. Man always does.

Love and meekness, lord, Become a churchman better than ambition: Win straying souls with modesty again, Cast none away.