There isn't any fear in existence itself, or any uncertainty, but living creates it.

Perfect purity is possible if you turn your life into a line of poetry written with a splash of blood.

True beauty is something that attacks, overpowers, robs, and finally destroys.

Nobody even imagines how well one can lie about the state of one’s own heart.

Young people get the foolish idea that what is new for them must be new for everybody else too. No matter how unconventional they get, they're just repeating what others before them have done.

Beauty is something that burns the hand when you touch it.

The special quality of hell is to see everything clearly down to the last detail.

By means of microscopic observation and astronomical projection the lotus flower can become the foundation for an entire theory of the universe and an agent whereby we may perceive Truth.

For an artist to do creative work, he needs at once physical health and some physiomental ill health. He needs both serenity and gloom.

Anything can become excusable when seen from the standpoint of the result

As long as you know I am waiting, take your time flowers of the spring.

Take the chair and sit at the fore-front of your dreams. You are the chair-person at the center of affairs

I assure you that in all matters of discretion not involving food, we make etiquette tutors look like slobbering barbarians.

If a man is worth knowing at all he is worth knowing well.

The spirit is at home, if not entirely satisfied, in America.

I remember as a boy when the conversation on civil rights was won in the South. I remember a time when one of my friends made a racist joke and another said, 'Hey man, we don't go for that anymore.'

You cannot change your journey if you are unwilling to move at all.

Where I come from, there were traditions with my race and whenever you faced a curve in life, there was always a tradition.

Night was running ahead of itself.

Books and ideas are the most effective weapons against intolerance and ignorance.