Rose! Thou art the sweetest flower that ever drank the amber shower: Even the Gods, who walk the sky, are amourous of thy scented sigh.

One of the greatest problems of our time is that many are schooled but few are educated.

You wouldn't abandon ship in a storm just because you couldn't control the winds.

Occupy your mind with good thoughts, or the enemy will fill them with bad ones.

Lord, give me a sense of humor so that I may take some happiness from this life and share it with others.

The heart that has truly loved never forgets.

Take something from yourself, to give to another, that is humane and gentle and never takes away as much comfort as it brings again.

I would uphold the law if for no other reason but to protect myself.

The things we pray for, good Lord, give us grace to labor for.

Nobody owns anything but everyone is rich - for what greater wealth can there be than cheerfulness, peace of mind, and freedom from anxiety?

Whoever loveth me, loveth my hound.

The truth is that everyone is bored, and devotes himself to cultivating habits.

I really think it's a white, bourgeois idea to pretend that you don't have influences. It seems to be the obsession strictly of white people in college.

Only the soul that knows the mighty grief can know the mighty rapture. Sorrows come to stretch out spaces in the heart for joy.

As an artist you need to move on, you need to try new things.

Man cannot live by bread alone. Man after all is composed of intellect and soul.

If you see fraud and do not say fraud, you are a fraud.

I laugh until I weep And weep until I smile

A work of art, so far as it is a work of art, cannot - whatever the artist's personal intention - advocate anything at all.

How can we know who is the other until we know who is the self?

I am not in the world to care for my life, but for souls.