I will indulge my sorrows, and give way to all the pangs and fury of despair.
The difficulty is to try and teach the multitude that something can be true and untrue at the same time.
In terms of an identity, an identity reflects an individuality, by definition. And, if there is a quality present, it is recognizable and it can be named. If you can't name it, it means you don't recognize it.
I've had a perfectly wonderful evening, but this wasn't it.
No man for any considerable period can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true.
The idea is to write it so that people hear it and it slides through the brain and goes straight to the heart.
The more intense the nature of a man, the more readily will he find meditation, and the more successfully will he practice it.
Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.
I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of Beauty.
I fully realize that no wealth or position can long endure, unless built upon truth and justice; therefore, I will engage in no transaction which does not benefit all whom it affects.
Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.
I just want to retire before I go senile because if I don't retire before I go senile, then I'll do more damage than good at that point.
If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true is really true, there would be little hope of advance.
Do it again on the next verse, and people think you meant it.
What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.
You can have anything in this world you want, if you want it badly enough and you're willing to pay the price.
The gift of words is the gift of deception and illusion.
Courage is grace under pressure.
Since it is difficult to join them together, it is safer to be feared than to be loved when one of the two must be lacking.
The greatness of a man is not in how much wealth he acquires, but in his integrity and his ability to affect those around him positively.
I have only ever read one book in my life, and that is White Fang. It's so frightfully good I've never bothered to read another.