Twas easier to disarm the god of strengthThan this Hippolytus, for HerculesYielded so often to the eyes of beauty, As to make triumph cheap.― Jean Racine, Phèdre

Be careful because brazen behavior and a powerful mind can hide a delicate heart.

Eli was right. The measure of success isn't what you gain. It's what you pay to get it.

To paint is a possessing rather than a picturing.

They make a desolation and call it peace.

We can tentatively credit capitalist civilization with a positive, if very geographically uneven, record in the struggle against disease.

If some persons died, and others did not die, death would be a terrible affliction.

It's easy to take the shortcut and use animal skins. But I think animal skins look tired. They're not very innovative. They're old-fashioned. And great fashion should be something new.

If experiments on animals were abandoned on grounds of compassion, mankind would have made a fundamental advance.

Life is a biography, not a series of disconnected moments, more or less pleasurable but increasingly tedious and unsatisfying unless one imposes a purposive pattern upon them.

Send out love and harmony, put your mind and body in a peaceful place, and then allow the universe to work in the perfect way that it knows how.