You know what an illusion is? On this planet, one small cloud has the ability to block the entire sun.

If better were within, better would come out.

I'll follow you, even to death—but I won't live with you any more.

Carmen will always be free.

Wings are like dreams. Before each flight, a bird takes a small jump, a leap of faith, believing that its wings will work. That jump can only be made with rock solid feet.

Each day, the goal is to receive knowledge and remove ignorance. This reveals what we all search for. Wisdom.

It's not what you learn, it's the way you learn it.

I wonder in what way I would function as a person, in a society without ever attending school. I'd be myself.

Why study things of no use? To learn you don't need it and concentrate your efforts on what is important to you.

A tree is no more valuable than a seed. Both are simply at a different stage in their development.

There's a reason why golfers walk forward to their next shot. It's to move on.

No matter what life throws at you

Trouble makes us one with every human being in the world - and unless we touch others, we're out of touch with life.

I mean, whatWhat if no one's watchingWhat if when we're deadWe are just deadI mean, whatWhat if it's just us down hereWhat if God is just an ideaSomeone put in your head

There's something ugly about a pretty boy who knows he's pretty and assumes everyone else know it too.

I say 'cuz' around Bloods, and I say 'blood' around Crips...I'm twisted. Got Mary, got Lucy, got Molly: that's wifey, girlfriend and mistress.

I like groaning. That means that you're not pandering to their already settled prejudices.

From the plough to paper, from the wheel to house, from tool handles to sailing ships. Man would have been nothing without trees.

Life is not worth living unless it is lived for others.

Love is the force that leaves you colorless

To beguile the time, look like the time.