In comparing various authors with one another, I have discovered that some of the gravest and latest writers have transcribed, word for word, from former works, without making acknowledgment.

Hope is the pillar that holds up the world. Hope is the dream of a waking man.

The feasant hens of Colchis, which have two ears as it were consisting of feathers, which they will set up and lay down as they list.

It has become quite a common proverb that in wine there is truth (In Vino Veritas).

The depth of darkness to which you can descend and still live is an exact measure of the height to which you can aspire to reach.

Why do we believe that in all matters the odd numbers are more powerful?

An object in possession seldom retains the same charm that it had in pursuit.

In these matters the only certainty is that nothing is certain.

From the end spring new beginnings.

Nature is to be found in her entirety nowhere more than in her smallest creatures.

In wine, there's truth.

I am no bird

Heaven and hell is right now. ... You make it heaven or you make it hell by your actions.

How many lives are frittered away, age after age, in endless coming and going. Find out who you are!

It's disappointing when you finally get to meet someone you admire and he conducts himself as a jerk.

We give kudos to people who have succeeded. We don't care in what they succeeded as long as they succeeded. The worst thing that can happen to anybody in this cultural environment is to fail.

How science dwindles, and how volumes swell, How commentators each dark passage shun, And hold their farthing candle to the sun!

The way I fight, it's not me beatin' the man. I make the man whip himself.

Fine art is in the last consequence, philosophy expressed visually.

Taking refuge means that you align and orient your life toward Buddha's example and toward enlightenment.

It's easy to pretend expertise when there's no data to contradict you.