The life of truth is cold.

I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.

He is a dull observer whose experience has not taught him the reality and force of magic, as well as of chemistry.

I have no expectation that any man will read history aright who thinks that what was done in a remote age, by men whose names have resounded far, has any deeper sense than what he is doing today.

Every revolution was first a thought in one man's mind, and when the same thought occurs to another man, it is the key to that era.

We are immensed in beauty, but our eyes have no clear vision.

Does not… the ear of Handel predict the witchcraft of harmonic sound?

It's important to know that words don't move mountains. Work, exacting work moves mountains.

I'm hoping to make a new thing for the world that remains in the mind like a new species of living thing.

I think it's quite painfully obvious when someone's practicing through an amp, as opposed to someone who's really laying down some stuff that just happens to be fast.

The mind is its own place, and in itself, can make heaven of Hell, and a hell of Heaven.

The temptations are great to simply retreat to the domain of private life and give up on our public problems.

Empathy lies in our ability to be present without opinion.

Most people can start a short story or a novel. If you're a writer, you can finish them. Finish enough of them, and you may be good enough to be publishable.

Two went to pray? Better to say one went to brag, the other to pray.

It's never over, al'Thor. The battle's never done.

Far less envy in America than in France.