While you are still beautiful and life still woos, it is such a fine gesture of disdainful pride to jilt it.

Man is born broken. He lives by mending. The Grace of God is glue.

God gave us mouths that close and ears that don't... that should tell us something.

We are where centuries only count as seconds, and after a thousand lives, our eyes begin to open.

There is no present or future-only the past, happening over and over again-now.

We need above all to learn again to believe in the possibility of nobility of spirit in ourselves.

Life is for each man a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors.

We fought so long against small things that we became small ourselves.

Curiosity killed the cat, but satisfaction brought it back.

The only living life is in the past and future - the present is an interlude - strange interlude in which we call on past and future to bear witness that we are living.

I will be an artist or nothing!

Not knowing anything, not searching for anything, understanding that we can’t hold on to anything, leaves us with nothing — nothing except our original nature, pure awareness.

I refuse to believe the people of Texas and all Americans in the world have forgotten us.

Truthfully, she was the best thing in his life and he was a complete idiot if he let her walk away from him.

The threats against democracy today are in general completely normal. They walk around in costume and tie.

No man will revel long in the indulgence of crime.

Being honest may not get you a lot of friends but it’ll always get you the right ones

Honors achieved far exceed those that are created.

Even a fool could see that one didn't need a war, nuclear or otherwise, to destroy oneself; the rising cost of weaponry could do that quite nicely.

I don't know that I'm in a position to give campaign advice to Donald Trump, given that he just whipped me in a primary.

Give my scallop-shell of quiet, My staff of faith to walk upon, My scrip of joy, immortal diet, My bottle of salvation, My gown of glory, hope's true gage; And thus I'll take my pilgrimage.