You have to lift a person up before you can really put them in their place.

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

Love without humility results in the inclination to act as everyone's parent, humility without love results in the need to be everyone's child, and love with humility results in the desire to be a friend.

Creative people are often found either disagreeable or intimidating by mediocrities.

Never hide things from hardcore thinkers. They get more aggravated, more provoked by confusion than the most painful truths.

If a man cannot understand the beauty of life, it is probably because life never understood the beauty in him.

The best ideas will eat at you for days, maybe even weeks, until something, some incident, some impulse, triggers you to finally express them.