Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.

I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of Beauty.

Any product that needs a manual to work is broken.

At the heart of all beauty lies something inhuman.

Human decency is not derived from religion. It precedes it.

Do it again on the next verse, and people think you meant it.

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.

Everything is vague to a degree you do not realize till you have tried to make it precise.

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

You're only given a little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it.

There is a real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment

Get off your butt and join the Marines!

My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me.

Forewarned, forearmed. To be prepared is half the victory.

I am not interested in picking up crumbs of compassion thrown from the table of someone who considers himself my master. I want the full menu of rights.

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

Even if you are divine, you don't disdain male consorts.

Be like a tree and let the dead leaves drop.

What do you despise? By this are you truly known.

Learn to give, whether you have plenty or little, whether you are happy or in pain.

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.