And there are loners in rural communities who, at the equinox, are said to don new garments and stroll down to the cities, where great beasts await them, fat and docile.

Love is made by two people, in different kinds of solitude. It can be in a crowd, but in an oblivious crowd.

I have no friends, there are only people I love.

Can the knowledge deriving from reason even begin to compare with knowledge perceptible by sense?

There are strange flowers of reason to match each error of the senses.

Most people have never known solitude.... But there are a few of the other kind who can go back to their rooms anywhere and close the door on the whole world, and feel that they need never emerge.

We know that the nature of genius is to provide idiots with ideas twenty years later.

There are other relations besides reality, which the mind is capable of grasping and which also are primary, like chance, illusion, the fantastic, the dream.

Everything that is not me is incomprehensible.

Geniuses are like ocean liners: they should never meet.

The painting of tomorrow will use the photographic eye as it has used the human eye.

Here is something good to remember. You were formed by God to become a beacon of light that shines brightly within the darkness of this world. You have a purpose!

Familiarity is the gateway drug to empathy.

Today's veterans often come home to find that, although they're willing to die for their country, they're not sure how to live for it.

Let's face it, a nice creamy chocolate cake does a lot for a lot of people; it does for me.

Happiness is a state of mind. With physical comforts if your mind is still in a state of confusion and agitation, it is not happiness. Happiness means calmness of mind.

I hadn't expected to be kidnapped today or I'd have worn something more conservative.

Simplicity is a key to avoiding complication. Part of the definition of simplicity is 'not complex or complicated; sincere.'

Everybody is excited to play so I think who plays with whom is a minor thing at this point.

You're late," she said, tapping her watch. "No, you're just early.

The family is more sacred than the state.