The melancholiness of the ocean; the melancholiness of everything else.

Kids who go to normal school are so teenagery, so angsty.

You can be a pharaoh. Like, a pharaoh means, that which you will become.

They want you to believe the Sun is hot. I urge you to ask yourself 'Have they ever touched it? Think about it.

When you think about an apple, you also think about the opposite of an apple.

How can mirrors be real if our eyes aren't real?

If Everybody In The World Dropped Out Of School We Would Have A Much More Intelligent Society.

If Newborn Babies Could Speak They Would Be The Most Intelligent Beings On Planet Earth.

People tell me to smile, I tell them the lack of emotion on my face doesn't mean I'm unhappy.

All The Rules In This World Were Made By Someone No Smarter Than You. So Make Your Own.

I watch like, Steve Jobs interviews, I don't really watch TV. I stopped watching TV when I turned like ten because my parents were like, 'TV's really bad for you.'

The practice of Detachment encourages the positive aspects of your life to become dominant, while providing a clear path for the negative aspects to recede.

O Lord saves us from overworking! Grant us grace to rest awhile.

When something has to be done, do it! In France we are full of good ideas, but we rarely put them into practice.

All man's troubles come from not knowing how to sit still in one room.

Causes have a way of tainting your reason until a person takes much bigger risks than sanity would otherwise allow.

Music in general and lately opera in particular fills my soul with hope and inspiration.

Holy persons draw to themselves all that is earthly.

That which does not kill me, has made a grave tactical error.

Being the first person to go to college that really related to me from the movie [The Butler] because being black and going to college everyone puts so much hope into you.

Even after Sword was published, I was still only thinking about the next book, Elfstones.