Happiness is the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experience.

Poetry is the impish attempt to paint the color of the wind.

What if everything is an illusion and nothing exists? In that case, I definitely overpaid for my carpet.

It is good taste, and good taste alone, that possesses the power to sterilize and is alwways the first handicap to any creative functioning.

No whispered rumours which the many spread can wholly perish.

Truth like a blanket that always leaves your feet cold screenwriter of Dead Poets' Society.

Commemoration of Giles of Provence, Hermit, c.710 Prayer enlarges the heart until it is capable of containing God's gift of himself.

Glass, china, and reputation are easily cracked, and never mended well.

Literature is the thought of thinking Souls.

The hardest of all is learning to be a well of affection, and not a fountain, to show them we love them not when we feel like it, but when they do.

There is no more sure tie between friends than when they are united in their objects and wishes.

As iron is eaten by rust, so are the envious consumed by envy.

The only way you can do that is with mirrors, and that's what it would take.

The Los Angeles riots were not caused by the Rodney King verdict. The Los Angeles riots were caused by rioters.

Treat others as thou wouldn't be treated. What thou likest not for thyself, dispense not to others.

There is a calf within California many calves drowned in Chino mud.

A goal without a plan is just a wish.

When men have gone so far as to talk as though their idols have come to life, it is time that someone broke them.

Another May new buds and flowers shall bring: Ah! why has happiness no second Spring?

Crime is a product of social excess.