What makes mankind tragic is not that they are the victims of nature, it is that they are conscious of it.
Artistic growth is, more than it is anything else, a refining of the sense of truthfulness.
Success is never so interesting as struggle
There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm.
Some things are best learned in calm, others in storm.
Elsewhere the sky is the roof of the world; but here the earth was the floor of the sky.
When kindness has left people, even for a few moments, we become afraid of them as if their reason had left them. When it has left a place where we have always found it, it is like shipwreck; we drop from security into something malevolent and bottomless.
Our reason has driven all away. Alone at last, we end up ruling over a desert.
If you have something floating in your drink, then you know you're ready. Seriously, what's in my drink? Aliens. Still gonna drink it.
Why is it that people with the most narrow of minds seem to have the widest of mouths?
We're not lowly sinners, we're not worthless beings. We are something jewel-like and beautiful.