Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it.
The idea of freedom is inspiring. But what does it mean? If you are free in a political sense but have no food, what's that? The freedom to starve?
Those who restrain desire do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained.
For a moment, nothing happened. Then, after a second or so, nothing continued to happen.
Your personal nature seeks its paradise.
There is the view that poetry should improve your life. I think people confuse it with the Salvation Army.
Be that self which one truly is.
I apologize for lying to you. I promise I won't deceive you except in matters of this sort.
The more intense the nature of a man, the more readily will he find meditation, and the more successfully will he practice it.
All satire is blind to the forces liberated by decay. Which is why total decay has absorbed the forces of satire.
Anything that makes weak - physically, intellectually and spiritually, reject it as poison.
Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.
Radical simply means 'grasping things at the root'.
We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same.
You're only given a little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it.
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
Never accept a drink from a urologist.
Everything beautiful has a mark of eternity.
Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so you shall become. Your vision is the promise of what you shall one day be; your ideal is the prophecy of what you shall at last unveil.
The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.
Where grief is fresh, any attempt to divert it only irritates.