The defining function of the artist is to cherish consciousness.

Dogs laugh, but they laugh with their tails.

A smile is the universal welcome.

It is the ability to take a joke, not make one, that proves you have a sense of humor.

Living well is the best revenge.If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door.

People who demand neutrality in any situation are usually not neutral but in favor of the status quo.

The worst enemy of human hope is not brute facts, but men of brains who will not face them.

The real guarantee of freedom is an equilibrium of social forces in conflict, not the triumph of any one force.

A poet in history is divine, but a poet in the next room is a joke

A liberal mind is a mind that is able to imagine itself believing anything.

Laughter puts your brain, your central nervous system and your whole being into a state of free play.

To be poor, ugly and, moreover, intelligent condemns one in our society to a dark and disillusioned life...to beauty all is forgiven.

Good poetry makes the universe reveal a secret.

They'll get my Kindle when they pry it from my cold dead hands, if my corpse will release it.

In exalting the faculties of the soul, we annihilate, in a great degree, the delusion of the senses.

All of our health is basically genetics.

The end of a melody is not its goal; but nonetheless, if the melody had not reached its end it would not have reached its goal either. A parable.

He knows very little of mankind who expects, by any facts or reasoning, to convince a determined party man.

Never underestimate the capacity of another human being to have exactly the same shortcomings you have.

Life is about becoming a better version of yourself.

Compulsive modernization is the insatiable desire to change and grow.