The heart becomes heroic through passion. It is no longer composed of anything but what is pure; it no longer rests upon anything but what is elevated and great.

Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.

It is not enough to be happy, one must be content.

Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

To love beauty is to see light.

An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise.

The future has several names. For the weak, it is impossible; for the fainthearted, it is unknown; but for the valiant, it is ideal.

Go out in the world and work like money doesn't matter, sing as if no one is listening, love as if you have never been hurt, and dance as if no one is watching.

When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right.

Music expresses that which cannot be put into words.

There is nothing like a dream to create the future.

No mind, no wisdom--tempora ry mind, temporary wisdom--eternal mind, eternal wisdom.

Washington is a place where good ideas go to die.

A woman's experience is different from a man's in virtually every respect, including how she is treated by the media.

I'm a little more of a lead instrument in the Meatbats.

The finest victory is to conquer one's own heart.

What is fruitful alone is true.

Sentences or solutions occur to me in the shower, or while running on the treadmill, or riding on the subway.

The power to bring me out of solitude - or to push me back into it - had never belonged to another person. It was mine and only mine.

Worship is not something we "work up," it is something that "comes down" to us, from the character of God.