The vivid force of his mind prevailed, and he fared forth far beyond the flaming ramparts of the heavens and traversed the boundless universe in thought and mind.

Constant dripping hollows out a stone.

All religions are equally sublime to the ignorant, useful to the politician, and ridiculous to the philosopher.

We, peopling the void air, make gods to whom we impute the ills we ought to bear.

What is food to one man is bitter poison to others

Visible objects therefore do not perish utterly, since nature repairs one thing from another and allows nothing to be born without the aid of another's death.

Nothing can dwindle to nothing, as Nature restores one thing from the stuff of another, nor does she allow a birth, without a corresponding death.

Burning fevers flee no swifter from your body if you toss under figured counterpanes and coverlets of crimson than if you must lie in rude homespun.

There can be no centrein infinity.

A persons limitations are only measured by their drive to succeed

The seed of the gift may come, but a seedling that isn't nourished dies quickly.

We can't win against obsession. They care, we don't. They win.

... paint in blue and black...sometimes gray - the colors of night - occasionally I surprise you with a mustard yellow, but then, I am a poet ...

Just let go - and fall like a little waterfall

Most films are written and made with a hero around 35, or even 25.

It's right to trust in God; but, if you don't stand to your halliards your craft'll miss stays, and your faith'll be blown out of the bolt-ropes in the turn of a marlinspike.

Do you remember the last thing you said to me? The last thing you did to me? And what was the last thing I said to you? Because trust me when I said it I knew it was the last thing I’d ever say.

Compassion is fierce and strong, and it holds people accountable. But it doesn't do it with anger or judgment.

We never worry about the big things, just the small things.