There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception.

I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.

After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.

Chastity: the most unnatural of the sexual perversions.

But I don't want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin.

You shall know the truth and the truth shall make you mad.

Sometimes you just have to regret things and move on.

God must hate common people, because he made them so common.

When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.

All beneath Heaven is rooted in nation. Nation is rooted in family. And family is rooted in self.

I warn you that when the princes of this world start loving you it means they are going to grind you up into battle sausage.

What is a man? A miserable little pile of secrets.

You can turn painful situations around through laughter. If you can find humor in anything, even poverty, you can survive it.

Teach us delight in simple things, and mirth that has no bitter springs.

It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.