All just laws condemn cruelty.

Light-enchanted sunflower, thou Who gazest ever true and tender On the sun's revolving splendour.

Restless sunflower; cease to move.

Green is the prime color of the world, and that from which its loveliness arises.

These flowers, which were splendid and sprightly, waking in the dawn of the morning, in the evening will be a pitiful frivolity, sleeping in the cold night's arms.

When love is not madness, it is not love.

What is life? A madness. What is life? An illusion, a shadow, a story. And the greatest good is little enough: for all life is a dream, and dreams themselves are only dreams.

In this treacherous world Nothing is the truth nor a lie. Everything depends on the color Of the crystal through which one sees it

But whether it be dream or truth, to do well is what matters. If it be truth, for truth's sake. If not, then to gain friends for the time when we awaken.

For man's greatest crime is to have been born.

Speak no evil of women; I tell thee the meanest of them deserves respect; for of women do we not all come?

Never fall in love?""Always, " said the count. "I am always in love.

The things that pose the greatest threats to your survival are the most real things.

I would like to live a day in the life of an ant and hope not to get squashed.

Maniacs of Procreation, bipeds with devalued faces, we have lost all appeal for each other.

The strong are God's natural protectors of the weak.

Music is liquid architecture; Architecture is frozen music.

What can I say without touching the earth with my hands?

Of all the conditions we experience, solitude is perhaps the most misunderstood.

If I was with some other rappers who aren't as polished, or I was the only rapper, I don't think I would be where I'm, nor would I be rapping. They pushed me, we pushed each other on every record.

Cruelty is no more the cure of crimes than it is the cure of sufferings; compassion, in the first instance, is good for both; I have known it to bring compunction when nothing else would.