The realist sees reality as concrete. The optimist sees reality as clay.

Sometimes you believe a thing that isn't true because in the world you wish to live in, it would be true.

The painter puts brush to canvas, and the poet puts pen to paper. The poet has the easier task, for his pen does not alter his rhyme.

If a language is corruptible, then a constitution written in that language is corruptible.

Take no revenge that you have not pondered beneath a starry sky, or on a canyon overlook, or to the lapping of waves and the mewing of a distant gull.

It is not that love is blind. It is that love sees with a painter's eye, finding the essence that renders all else background.

We realize we can't have everything, and so begins the mad dash to have everything else.