To the King, one must give his possessions and his life; but honour is a possession of soul, and the soul is only God's.

Light-enchanted sunflower, thou Who gazest ever true and tender On the sun's revolving splendour.

Restless sunflower; cease to move.

Green is the prime color of the world, and that from which its loveliness arises.

These flowers, which were splendid and sprightly, waking in the dawn of the morning, in the evening will be a pitiful frivolity, sleeping in the cold night's arms.

When love is not madness, it is not love.

What is life? A madness. What is life? An illusion, a shadow, a story. And the greatest good is little enough: for all life is a dream, and dreams themselves are only dreams.

In this treacherous world Nothing is the truth nor a lie. Everything depends on the color Of the crystal through which one sees it

But whether it be dream or truth, to do well is what matters. If it be truth, for truth's sake. If not, then to gain friends for the time when we awaken.

For man's greatest crime is to have been born.

Speak no evil of women; I tell thee the meanest of them deserves respect; for of women do we not all come?

It feels great to share life.

This is no book. Whoever touches this touches a man.

If you dwell on the negatives, any life can be terrible, regardless of its circumstances.

Ever poised on that cusp between past and future, we tie memories to souvenirs like string to trees along life’s path, marking the trail in case we lose ourselves around a bend of tomorrow’s road.

The feet of ghosts never touch the ground.

We are not born to wait. We are born to do.

I don't read the news anymore because I know it would make me depressed. So instead, I make beauty. I make movies.

A seagull manager is one who periodically flies into the area, makes a lot of noise, dumps on the people, maybe eats their lunch, and flies away.

God needs to get rescued from religious music.

The positive element of kitsch lies in the fact that it sets free for a moment the glimmering realization that you have wasted your life.