The waking mind, you see, is the least serviceable in the arts.

If there is to be any peace it will come through being, not having.

Whatever there be of progress in life comes not through adaptation but through daring.

In expanding the field of knowledge we but increase the horizon of ignorance.

A book lying idle on a shelf is wasted ammunition.

The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.

It is with the soul that we grasp the essence of another human being, not with the mind, nor even with the heart.

either you take in believing in miracles or you stand still like the hummingbird.

Chaos is the score upon which reality is written.

Art is only a means to life, the life more abundant. It merely points the way.

Man has demonstrated that he is master of everything - except his own nature.

I feel like a crumpled up piece of paper that has something really important written on it. But no one will ever know what that is because all they see is something that's been discarded.

No situation is beyond God’s control. Over my wife’s desk are these words: “Fear not the future

The only people we want to blame are ourselves, because it will be ourselves that we rely upon.

O Fiend, whose talisman was that fatal symbol, wouldst thou leave nothing, whether in youth or age, for this poor sinner to revere?—such loss of faith is ever one of the saddest results of sin.

I think it's awesome to be able to make people laugh.

Politicians saying one thing and doing another, celebrities though are some of the worst offenders.

I’m not really the sacrificing type.

An absolute condition of all successful living, whether for an individual or a nation, is the acceptance of death.

Dead people belong to the live people who claim them most obsessively.

I think that I get to represent different types of beauty that [are] not just my own.