The ordinary true, or purely real, cannot be the object of the arts. Illusion on a ground of truth,--that is the secret of the fine arts.

Words are like eyeglasses they blur everything that they do not make clear.

Monuments are the grappling-irons that bind one generation to another.

The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.

Without the spiritual world the material world is a disheartening enigma.

The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk.

A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.

We find little in a book but what we put there. But in great books, the mind finds room to put many things.

The evening of life brings with it its lamps.

He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet.

Close your eyes and you will see.

DON'T BE JEALOUS OF OTHERS - EVER. YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT THEY HAD TO DO TO GET TO WHERE THEY ARE.

Politicians are people who learn not to blink, when they lie.

I don't like to play the victim.

Some things You have to let be lost Some battles, some battles You have to leave unfought. Then the truth just wastes away In all we dare not say. And in all we can't explain But I faithfully remain.

Just in general, when we look at our school system, there is so much overlap with our criminal justice system in terms of our low-income youth.

I haven't watched it [the film 'Pink Floyd at Pompeii'] in years. I find it excruciating.

I have big hope for the Canadian government to help Somalia with something concrete and tangible. I haven't seen that.

I feel like I came through this year stronger and wiser, and I can go into 2015 in a much better place.

Faster than spring-time showers comes thought on thought.

Poetry is the breath and finer spirit of all knowledge; it is the impassioned expression which is in the countenance of all Science