Start a rumor aboutpeace taking over, love being the new black, and compassion going viral.

Freedom can be an acquired taste for those who have never savored it.

Unless you break free from the shackles of beauty as dictated by the media and society, true beauty will be elusive.

Is a tree any less beautiful because it has lost a limb?

History and beauty lie in the baroque wrinkles of old cathedrals. mosques, synagogues, temples and faces whose stories are told without a single word.

The candy colored coral snake.The iridescent blue-ringed octopus.Décolletage.Beware of conspicuous beauty.Its venom can be deadly.

She walks in beauty.I am trampled by it.She swims in beauty.I drown in it.

Roll in the snow.Shower in the rain.Bask in the sun.Weatherproof your soul.

Hard and dry, a chickpea is inedible.Hard and dry, a heart is unlovable.Presoak it in dance, music and art.

Beholdthe azure sea in front of you, the turquoise sky above you, the amber mountain beneath your feet, and the golden daisy in your hands.How are you not the richest person on earth?

If you lock the door on sorrow, how will it leave your heart?

Pleasure from the senses seems like nectar at first, but it is bitter as poison in the end.

When computers came along, I felt for the first time that I had the proper tools for the kind of theoretical work I wanted to do. So I moved over to that, and that got me into psychology.

Who realizes what? That is realization.

Great leaders are not defined by the absence of weakness, but rather by the presence of clear strengths.

A woman should live with two men; one more a lover and the other more a friend.

Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.

Thicken your religion a little. It is evaporating altogether by being subtilized.

In the summer of 2010, I had decided to get into film and TV writing, so I wrote scripts for six different ideas I had developed, and the pilot for True Detective was one of them.

I'm lucky enough that people tend to agree a lot with what I say. But really if anyone in the band has a really strong feeling, it carries a lot of weight.

Something had gone amiss with men, and the weak ones were dangerous.