The mansion should not be graced by its master, the master should grace the mansion.

Politicians are not born; they are excreted.

Poor is the nation that has no heroes, but poorer still is the nation that having heroes, fails to remember and honor them.

It is the peculiar quality of a fool to perceive the faults of others and to forget his own.

Read at every wait; read at all hours; read within leisure; read in times of labor; read as one goes in; read as one goest out. The task of the educated mind is simply put: read to lead.

We learn nothing from history except that we learn nothing from history.

It is not enough to acquire wisdom, it is necessary to employ it.

Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book.

Nothing is more unreliable than the populace, nothing more obscure than human intentions, nothing more deceptive than the whole electoral system.

To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child.

If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.

No one is to blame for your future situation but yourself. If you want to be successful, then become "Successful".

Poetry is an act of love.

Anyone and anything can survive the daylight. It's night that's the hardest to live.

Abstraction is one of the greatest visionary tools ever invented by human beings to imagine, decipher, and depict the world.

The environmental crisis is a global problem, and only global action will resolve it.

Modern humans became fixated on a collective hallucination of linear time, ignoring the fractal spirals of the surrounding universe.

Something in her small eyes caught the sunlight and glistened, like a glacier on the faraway face of a mountain.

My weight fluctuates, like any normal girl, and I have times when I feel insecure.

Through the Australians, and the Japanese, too, I suppose, the Americans get their message across, but not in a heavy-handed way.

I think, and a lot of that has to do with where I grew up in California; [status] isn't something I think about that much.