“Love and fear. Everything the father of a family says must inspire one or the other.”

He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet.

One who has imagination without learning has wings without feet.

Justice is the truth in action.

When you go in search of honey you must expect to be stung by bees.

Ask the young. They know everything.

A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.

You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some of it with you.

Space is to place as eternity is to time.

We must respect the past, and mistrust the present, if we wish to provide for the safety of the future.

Politeness is the flower of humanity.

Never cut what you can untie.

Misery is almost always the result of thinking.

Superstition is the only religion of which base souls are capable of.

Only choose in marriage a man whom you would choose as a friend if he were a woman.

There was a time when the world acted on books; now books act on the world.

God is the place where I do not remember the rest.

Knowing record labels and knowing the kinds of things they would object to-they just object to everything that’s interesting.

I thought everything was interesting. I wanted to go scuba diving and I wanted to learn how to surf.

[Therefore] holding a trial outside the court. I think that is fairness, that is justice, that is a civil society. Otherwise call it an evil society because everything is hidden.

Liberty is about our rights to question everything.

I would say a great song [is where] you like everything in the song. The lyrics move you, the beat makes you want to dance and you feel invincible when you listen to that song. A good song I think you can listen to but you get tired of it really fast.

We are living in a popular culture where everything is overexposed.

Everything that we believe in and count on is really in question right now. Our safety net, public education, housing, health care.

A woman’s happiness is in throwing everything away to live for love.