An opinion which excites no opposition at all is not worth having!

Such lovely warmth of thought and delicacy of colour are beyond all praise, and equally beyond all thanks!

Let me be mad, then, by all means! mad with the madness of Absinthe, the wildest, most luxurious madness in the world! Vive la folie! Vive l'amour! Vive l'animalisme! Vive le Diable!

You should always be well and bright, for so you do your best work; and you have so much beautiful work to do. The world needs it, and you must give it!

Nothing gives small minds a better handle for hatred than superiority.

Flowers are like visible messages from God.

No one is contented in this world, I believe. There is always something left to desire, and the last thing longed for always seems the most necessary to happiness.

Wealth acts merely as a kind of mirror to show you human nature at its worst.

There is no wealth but love.

The Church is a system, - but whether it is as much founded on the teaching of our Lord, who was divine, as on the teaching of St. Paul, who was not divine, is a question to me of much perplexity.

Great Poets discover themselves. Little Poets have to be 'discovered' by somebody else.

I could have something like an encounter out there – a vicarious experience completely free of any fears of infection or the face-to-face intimacy I didn’t know how to process.

I can still wake up the next day and feel that there's something that needs to be done, which always amuses me.

Intellect is the ability to avoid belaboring the obvious.

Regardless of who has betrayed you and what promises they didn’t keep- God is firm in His commitment to you.

Crying over what's gone won't find the present.

It's not what you say, it's what people hear.

The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness.

You live long enough in a world spinning on its axis, you learn to spin in the same direction.

In all my years of performing, no audience member has ever actually assaulted me. I consider this to be the singular triumph of my performing career.

All joking aside, I'm a television watcher and I get frustrated with shows sometimes when they set up puzzles and then they don't give answers. It's just more questions and more questions.