Poetry is the exquisite expression of exquisite impressions.

God often visits us, but most of the time we are not at home.

When orators and auditors have the same prejudices, those prejudices run a great risk of being made to stand for incontestable truths.

Solitude vivifies, isolation kills.

Poetry is truth in its Sunday clothes.

There is a slowness in affairs which ripens them, and a slowness which rots them.

Nothing vivifies, and nothing kills, like the emotions.

I look at what I have not and think myself unhappy; others look at what I have and think me happy.

Conscientious men are, almost everywhere, less encouraged than tolerated.

There are people who laugh to show their fine teeth; and there are those who cry to show their good hearts.

Persons of delicate taste endure stupid criticism better than they do stupid praise.

A perpetual world

If there's ever a kid out there that can't afford to buy the music, I still want them to hear it, and hopefully they'll go to the show, or buy a T-shirt from the band. That's the idea.

The nagual doesn't give you the ability to get what you want in the tonal.

I stand upon a block of stillness. It is more secure than any sidewalk. I bring with me my own sidewalk.

There is no readier way for a man to bring his own worth into question than by endeavoring to detract from the worth of other men.

You think school ends when it ends, but it doesn't.

There is nothing I can say that I haven't thought before.

Life exists without rules; games cannot exist without rules. So real religion is always without rules; only false religion has rules, because false religion is a game.

Difficulties arise whenever a committed relationship is succeeding. Love makes you vulnerable. . . . Your defenses relax and the dark side of your personality arises. . .

I wish my horse had the speed of your tongue.