Joy's a subtle elf, I think man's happiest when he forgets himself.

A drunkard clasp his teeth and not undo 'em, To suffer wet damnation to run through 'em.

When the bad bleeds, then is the tragedy good.

Most women have small waists the world throughout, But their desires are thousand miles about.

I shine in tears like the sun in April.

There was, I found, always more to learn.

The blessing of knowledge becomes a curse when we pervert it.

We can take our time with everything. Do it right, do it slow.

Fred Astaire is my hero. I love him because he was willing to kill himself to make his art look effortless. And because he proved it's possible to be an artist and a good person.

I think the greatest illusion we have is that denial protects us. It's actually the biggest distortion and lie. In fact, staying asleep is what's killing us.

The only limits of power are the bounds of belief.

There are things about us that make us who we are, personality traits, or capacities that we have, or knowledge we possess or that we don't possess, habits we have that are good or bad.

Keep in mind, just because you don’t know the answer doesn’t mean that one does not exist. You simply haven’t discovered it yet.

I've caught fish as big as I am. I've caught marlin close to 300 pounds.

The roots of war are in the way we live our daily lives -- the way we develop our industries, build up our society, and consume goods.