All imperfection is easier to tolerate if served up in small doses.
It is better to be looked over than overlooked.
I am a lover of truth, a worshipper of freedom, a celebrant at the altar of language and purity and tolerance.
Obsession is the wellspring of genius and madness.
By three methods we may learn wisdom: first, by reflection which is noblest; second, by imitation, which is the easiest; and third, by experience, which is the bitterest.
It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
Be frank and explicit. That is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others.
It is not the strength, but the duration, of great sentiments that makes great men.
Think no vice so small that you may commit it, and no virtue so small that you may over look it.
The future is uncertain but the end is always near.
Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.
Only from the heart can you touch the sky.
You laugh at me because I'm different, I laugh at you because you're all the same.
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.
Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart.
Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with deeper meaning.
Where wisdom reigns, there is no conflict between thinking and feeling.
You don't want to lose your old friend - the misery - You have invested too much into false - Hence the fear to be exposed -to be true - to be naked as you are.
If you have no problems, then you have no clue to what is going.
The place where you made your stand never mattered. Only that you were there...and still on your feet.
The impossible could not have happened, therefore the impossible must be possible in spite of appearances.