Romance like a ghost escapes touching; it is always where you are not, not where you are. The interview or conversation was prose at the time, but it is poetry in the memory.

Every great crisis of human history is a pass of Thermopylae, and there is always a Leonidas and his three hundred to die in it, if they can not conquer.

It is not the ship so much as the skillful sailing that assures the prosperous voyage.

Happiness lies, first of all, in health.

A man's country is not a certain area of land, of mountains, rivers, and woods, but it is a principle and patriotism is loyalty to that principle.

The new year begins in a snow-storm of white vows.

I walked beside the evening sea And dreamed a dream that could not be; The waves that plunged along the shore Said only: "Dreamer, dream no more!"

Life is a rich strain of music, suggesting a realm too fair to be.

Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.

Books are the ever burning lamps of accumulated wisdom.

Stratagem is the right hand of cunning.

My heart is a thousand years old. I am not like other people.

I have successfully avoided being stereotyped into a specific category. I've worked very hard at that, and I'm proud of not being easily lumped into anybody's preconceived notions or expectations.

What gives Bach and Mozart a place apart is that these two great expressive composers never sacrificed form to expression.

Society is like the air, necessary to breathe but insufficient to live on.

Each scar's a cipher rimmed with old barbs and landmines, protecting its truth.

You know, one of my - one of my best and, I think, most enlightening moments was when I was contacted by Michael Jackson. And he requested that I paint his portrait.

Sometimes when you lose your way in the fog, you end up in a beautiful place! Don't be afraid of getting lost!

The value of the space program is beyond science, it's beyond military; it's a cultural shift in how we think of our place in the universe.

'Drugs' and psychedelics are not two members of a family, they are antithetically opposed to each other. The pro-psychedelic position is an anti-drug position.

The magnet's name the observing Grecians drew. From the magnetic region where it grew.