Most personalities have been obliged to be rebels. Half their strength has been wasted in friction.

Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.

The evolution of man is slow. The injustice of men is great.

The note of the perfect personality is not rebellion, but peace.

The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing.

The true perfection of man lies not in what man has, but in what man is.

The emotions of man are stirred more quickly than man’s intelligence.

It is rarely in the world's history that its ideal has been one of joy and beauty. The worship of pain has far more often dominated the world.

To call an artist morbid because he deals with morbidity as his subject-matter is as silly as if one called Shakespeare mad because he wrote ‘King Lear.

It is safer to beg than to take, but it is finer to take than to beg.

Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live. It is asking other people to live as one wishes to live.

There are no extra pieces in the universe. Everyone is here because he or she has a place to fill, and every piece must fit itself into the big jigsaw puzzle.

Every moment is not great and sometimes those are the moments in which you learn the most.

To be proud of knowledge is to be blind with light.

Hail Lord, ...Loose my chains.

I actually think that secrets are just a part of human nature and that everybody should have some.

How can the heart travel to God, when it is chained by its desires?

Trust is not spoken, Trust is a feeling.

It's time to stop producing stuff, and start producing fun.

You don't love in your enemies what they are, but what you would have them become by your prayers.

If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.