To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are.

The beginning of thought is in disagreement - not only with others but also with ourselves.

Rudeness is the weak man's imitation of strength.

He’d danced around that story about why he’d moved to Terrebonne more smoothly than an Olympic skater on ice.

Living well and beautifully and justly are all one thing.

That which is not just, is not Law; and that which is not Law, ought not to be obeyed.

Nothing is meaningless it's how we assign meaning to the past that determines how we experience the present, and future.

I try not to listen to a lot of music when I'm starting the recording process, because it can be so subtly influential.

Painting is a means of self-enlightenment.

I guess my life hasn’t always been happy, or easy, or exactly what I want. At a certain point, I just have to try not to think too much about certain things, or else they’ll break my heart.

Each language has its own temperament; some languages make a poem more dramatic or sad, and others make it more playful.

Once you have power, you are inevitably surrounded by people who have their own agendas and will tell you whatever advances them.

As any action or posture, long continued, will distort and disfigure the limbs, so the mind likewise is crippled and contracted by perpetual application to the same set of ideas.