Benefit is the only blindfold required to convince ourselves that poison is wine. Liberty's comfort level rises and falls with the sympathies of its children. Well, I for one will not collaborate.

Indifference is a well that never runs dry, and as good a word for evil as was ever composed.

No matter what happens to you, if you have life, with faith and hope, you will live to see your situation change.

Regret swallows broken men whole. Acceptance builds them anew.

Nothing is less like life than our idea of it.

Beauty for some provides escape, who gain a happiness in eyeing the gorgeous buttocks of the ape or Autumn sunsets exquisitely dying.

Kind words are a creative force, a power that concurs in the building up of all that is good, and energy that showers blessings upon the world.

One of the greatest gifts we can give to another generation is our experience, our wisdom.

I continued to study Math and Physics on my own, but one and a half years later I realized that I did want to be a composer, and after that I never changed my mind.

A friend of mine tells that I talk in shorthand and then smudge it.

To be a good poet, you must care more about the writing, than the writer.

It's the teachers, they're the enemy. They get us to fight each other, to hate each other.