The evolution from happiness to habit is one of death's best weapons.

Peopleshould talk less and draw more. Personally, I would like to renounce speechaltogether and, like organic nature, communicate everything I have to sayvisually.

Conflictis the gadfly of thought. It stirs us to observation and memory. Itinstigates to invention. It shocks us out of sheeplikepassivity, and sets us at noting and contriving.

Beon a horse when you go in search of a better one.

Conscience is the frame of character, love is the covering for it.

Forbidden fruit can get us into a real jam.

Thetruth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feelingdeeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in suchmoments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of ourruts and start searching for di

Nature gave women too much power; the law gives them too little.

I said to the almond tree, ‘'Friend, speak to me of God,’' and the almond treeblossomed.

A wise man has great power, and a man of knowledgeincreases strength.

Let not thy will roar, when the power can but whisper.

Whenyou lose, don't lose the lesson.