We are near waking when we dream we are dreaming.

A hero is one who knows how to hang on one minute longer.

Life must not be a novel that is given to us, but one that is made by us.

Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.

Where are we really going? Always home.

Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.

There is but one temple in the universe, and that is the body of man.

The mysterious path goes inward. It is in us, and not anywhere else, where the eternity of the worlds, the past and the future are found.

In cheerful souls there is no wit. Wit shows a disturbance of the equipoise.

When you understand how to love one thing, then you also understand how to love everything.

Nature is an aeolian harp, a musical instrument whose tones are the re-echo of higher strings within us.

Somewhere in the infinity of his personal universe.

How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world.

As a teen, I heard the second Velvet Underground album, 'White Light/White Heat, ' and it was too much for my limited scope of appreciation. It was intense, but I didn't get it.

The worlds civilization started from the day on which everyone received reward for labour.

Mitt Romney looks like an American President in a Canadian movie.

Badly off as the men...were in your day, they were more fortunate than their mothers and wives.

A single profane expression betrays a man's low breeding.

Imagine someone pointing to a place in the iris of a Rembrandt eye and saying, 'The walls of my room should be painted this color.

Surrounded by noises from televisions, airplanes, subways and automobiles, most of us 'tune out' for self-protection.

There are over 550 million firearms in worldwide circulation. That's one firearm for every twelve people on the planet. The only question is, how do we arm the other 11?