We may receive so much light as not to see, and so much philosophy as to be worse than foolish.

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.

There is a voice in my head that is only silenced by the scratching of my pen

Silence leads us back to our purpose, and it ignites creativity and vision.

Limiting beliefs are a virus of the mind. They decline your success and happiness.

Sometimes, when you win, you lose.

The ridiculous is closer to life's source than the sensible.

And when the echoes had ceased, like a sense of pain was the silence.

But all I could think of was taking some books to read in jail. I held everybody up, choosing which ones to take.

I'd rather have a kid come up to me and tell me that he loves dinosaurs or he loves airplanes or he likes training dogs or I like Shakespeare. I mean, just something.

I'm optimistic about people and about the planet and about nature. I think it's resilient, like people are.