Then came a moment of renaissance, I looked up - you again are there, A fleeting vision, the quintessence Of all that's beautiful and rare.

It is better to have dreamed a thousand dreams that never were than never to have dreamed at all.

Don't be sad, don't be angry, if life deceives you! Submit to your grief - your time for joy will come, believe me.

Fearing no insult, asking for no crown, receive with indifference both flattery and slander, and do not argue with a fool.

The less we show our love to a woman, Or please her less, and neglect our duty, The more we trap and ruin her surely, In the flattering toils of philandery.

Better the illusions that exalt us than ten thousand truths.

I’ve lived to bury my desires, And see my dreams corrode with rust; Now all that’s left are fruitless fires That burn my empty heart to dust.

Somewhere between obsession and compulsion is impulse.

A deception that elevates us is dearer than a host of low truths.

I want to understand you, I study your obscure language.

If you but knew the flames that burn in me which I attempt to beat down with my reason.

I wondered why humans were even given the gift of speech at all. We no longer needed it

The dependency of the human element on Planet Earth is a profoundly personal relationship with Nature’s Mom.

Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at that moment.

Education in this country is about how to maintain the status quo and to perpetuate racism.

Creating whole departments of ethnic, gender, and other 'studies' was part of the price of academic peace. All too often, these 'studies' are about propaganda rather than serious education.

I'm definitely open to change, but at the same time I am quite stubborn.

I want to tell the children of the world, you are all our children, each one of you is my child and I love you all.

But silence is where victims dwell.

Smell is incredibly important and sensual; it communicates who you are.

Seeking chaos is at least one way to develop the skills and mindsets to tackle ambiguity.