The common man prays, 'I want a cookie right now!' And God responds, 'If you'd listen to what I say, tomorrow it will bring you 100 cookies.

Even though artists of all kinds claim to put their hearts and souls into their works, it will only confuse you, for example, if you try to discern a painter by his paintings. His masterpiece may be the master because of its iridescence; it may display a hundred different perspectives through his single face.

The first ingredient to being wrong is to claim that you are right.

Thoughts are like burning stars, and ideas, they flood, they stretch the universe.

A man who loves others based solely on how they make him feel, or what they do for him, is really not loving others at all - but loving only himself.

The love of conflict is most evident when opposing forces join sides to defeat the peacemaker.

When you have wit of your own, it's a pleasure to credit other people for theirs.