We cannot be contented because we are happy, and we cannot be happy because we are contented.

The spirit of Greece, passing through and ascending above the world, hath so animated universal nature, that the very rocks and woods, the very torrents and wilds burst forth with it.

No ashes are lighter than those of incense, and few things burn out sooner.

There is nothing on earth divine except humanity.

Truth, like the juice of the poppy, in small quantities, calms men; in larger, heats and irritates them, and is attended by fatal consequences in excess.

We are no longer happy so soon as we wish to be happier.

A man's vanity tells him what is honor, a man's conscience what is justice.

My thoughts are my company; I can bring them together, select them, detain them, dismiss them.

Friendship is a vase, which, when it is flawed by heat, or violence, or accident, may as well be broken at once; it can never be trusted after.

The Siren waits thee, singing song for song.

A good cook is the peculiar gift of the gods. He must be a perfect creature from the brain to the palate, from the palate to the finger's end.

We waste time looking for the perfect lover instead of creating the perfect love.

It's very hard to know what wisdom is.

Your life is not a dress rehearsal - this is it! It's show time!

To be concerned with the issue; soul versus non-soul, is to be in bondage to craving for becoming and non-becoming.

He is praised by some, blamed by others.

This voting thing is actually beautiful. Not just necessary - it's a wonderful thing and it makes you powerful. And we've forgotten that in the most negative [president's] campaign in history.

I started cutting my teeth on "Someone To Watch Over Me" [George Gershvin] in the college. I've sung that one for a while. There's something so simple and sweet about that lyric.

We don't have enough time to premeditate our actions.

There's never going to be a great misunderstanding of me. I think I'm a little whacked.

Art is a war - between ourselves and the forces of self-sabotage that would stop us from doing our work. The artist is a warrior.