Those who live by the sea can hardly form a single thought of which the sea would not be part.

No one's death comes to pass without making some impression, and those close to the deceased inherit part of the liberated soul and become richer in their humanness.

Although every man believes that his decisions and resolutions involve the most multifarious factors, in reality they are mere oscillation between flight and longing.

The world has always gone through periods of madness so as to advance a bit on the road to reason.

The goddess of beauty is the goddess Kitsch.

One who hates is a man holding a magnifying-glass, and when he hates someone, he knows precisely that person's surface, from the soles of his feet all the way up to each hair on the hated head

Are we, then, insane because we have not gone mad?

The essence of kitsch is the confusion of ethical and esthetic categories; kitsch wants to produce not the "good" but the "beautiful."

Kitsch tends to wallow in beauty - its shortcoming is not aesthetic, but ethical

What's important is promising something to the people, not actually keeping those promises. The people have always lived on hope alone.

Romanticism is the mother of kitsch and that there are moments when the child becomes so like its mother that one cannot differentiate between them

Wrote you a poem or two. You didn’t enjoy them, but I did for you.

God gave you a gift of 84, 600 seconds today. Have you used one of them to say thank you?

I never understood that everyone feels lost temporarily when they want to change their world and the state of their life

I was born in Sacramento but moved to Los Angeles with my mom and my little sister when I was seven.

We need a system that serves our needs, not the needs of others. Remember, under a Trump administration it's called America first. Remember that.

It is enough that one man hate another for hate to gain, little by little, all mankind.

We shall not benefit from reading the Old Testament unless we look for and meditate on the glory of Christ in its pages.

Girl Guiding and Girl Scouting can be the magic thread which links the girls of the world together.

It is futile to try to make the universe add up. But I guess we must go on anyhow.

The most important resources you will ever have are your mind and your mind-set. You must protect them at all costs.