When silence is prolonged over a certain period of time, it takes on new meaning.

Perfect purity is possible if you turn your life into a line of poetry written with a splash of blood.

True beauty is something that attacks, overpowers, robs, and finally destroys.

Nobody even imagines how well one can lie about the state of one’s own heart.

Young people get the foolish idea that what is new for them must be new for everybody else too. No matter how unconventional they get, they're just repeating what others before them have done.

Beauty is something that burns the hand when you touch it.

The special quality of hell is to see everything clearly down to the last detail.

By means of microscopic observation and astronomical projection the lotus flower can become the foundation for an entire theory of the universe and an agent whereby we may perceive Truth.

For an artist to do creative work, he needs at once physical health and some physiomental ill health. He needs both serenity and gloom.

Anything can become excusable when seen from the standpoint of the result

As long as you know I am waiting, take your time flowers of the spring.

Death leaves cans of shaving cream half-used.

One day, one of my dreams is to someday get to do Nemo in '20, 000 Leagues Under the Sea.'

So much has changed in our business. E-books, that's been one of the principal developments. There has been also the failure of Borders and the rise of Amazon, just to name two others.

The actors are the greatest executors of tone in a film. They're the most important cinematic component.

A lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt as dangerous.

The waterfall method amounts to a pledge by all parties not to learn anything while doing the actual work.

Sweet and glorious it is to die for our country.

If you are in a position to give direction to the masses, check your direction thousand times to be sure that it is the correct one!

The state of love is the state of grace. The development of that state and the unlocking of its mysteries brings one to the condition where there is no separation between oneself and others

The truth is that the whole system of beliefs which comes in with the story of the fall of man ... is gently falling out of enlightened human intelligence.