We moderns do not believe in demigods, but our smallest hero we expect to feel and act as a demigod.

For me the greatest beauty always lies in the greatest clarity.

Let us be lazy in everything, except in loving and drinking, except in being lazy.

They make glorious shipwreck who are lost in seeking worlds.

To look forward to pleasure is also a pleasure.

The search for truth is more precious than its possession.

A single grateful thought toward heaven is the most perfect prayer.

He who doesn't lose his wits over certain things has no wits to lose.

Yesterday I lived, today I suffer, tomorrow I die; but I still think fondly, today and tomorrow, of yesterday.

The more we see the more we must be able to imagine, and the more we imagine, the more we must think we see.

The most deadly fruit is borne by the hatred which one grafts on an extinguished friendship

Is that me?, ' Leo said. 'Like me--having this dream--looking at me having a dream?

The best way to find out what we really need is to get rid of what we don't.

With my talent, I can make people laugh and give them another attitude about life. What a blessing that is for me.

I felt so painfully isolated that I vowed I would get revenge on the world by becoming a famous cartoonist.

Every time there's a cut in the action, we joke and dance around, there's show tunes and fart noises.

A soul-based workplace asks things of me that I didn't even know I had. It's constantly telling me that I belong to something large in the world.

The day when efficacy would prevail over truth will never come for the Church, for then the gates of hell would have prevailed against her.

Almost every great innovation was [created] by government.

The question remains: which brands will commit to creating a private sector pillar of social change, and which will become casualties of their own outdated thinking?

I'd say my religious life has shaped my worldview; my writing, I'd say too, is an extension of the pulpit...it reaches folks who don't care for organized religion in a different way.