You’ll miss the best things if you keep your eyes shut.

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.

How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.

A myth is an image in terms of which we try to make sense of the world.

You always admire what you really don't understand.

Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.

Never lend your car to someone you've given birth to.

His modesty amounts to deformity.

It seldom happens that any felicity comes so pure as not to be tempered and allayed by some mixture of sorrow.

With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.

You can have anything in this world you want, if you want it badly enough and you're willing to pay the price.

In the increasingly convincing darkness the words become palpable, like a fruit that is too beautiful to eat.

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.

Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society.

Sanity is a madness put to good uses.

My specialty is detached malevolence.

Young heads take example of the ancient.

A person preaches well that lives well.

The speed of the leader is the speed of the gang.

God creates, I do not create. I assemble and I steal everywhere to do it - from what I see, from what the dancers can do, from what others do.

If from Society we learn to live Tis Solitude should teach us how to die; It hath no flatterers.