"A good life is a series of joyful meetings and joyful moments."

"To be possessed is an admirable reason for possessing."

"Be noble minded! Our own heart, and not other men's opinions of us, forms our true honor."

"Shame is that intrinstic meter of our own heart to tell us that we have failed to follow our own moral compass."

"Animals awaken, first facially, then bodily. Men's bodies wake before their faces do. The animal sleeps within its body, man sleeps with his body in his mind."

"Frustration is one of the greatest things in art; satisfaction is nothing."

"With a gun stuck in your mouth and the barrel of the gun between your teeth, you can only talk in vowels."

"Instead of giving a politician the keys to the city, it might be better to change the locks."

"Be substantially great in thyself, and more than thou appearest unto others."

"If you can dream it, you can do it."

"All men have need of the gods."

"Sometimes when reading Goethe I have a paralyzing suspicion that he is trying to be funny."