Even a paranoid can have enemies. Next to theology I give music the highest place of honor. He who observes etiquette but objects to lying is like someone who dresses fashionably but wears no vest. Is there not an art, a music, and a stream of words that shalt be life, the acknowledged voice of life? The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. That's a valiant flea that dares eat his breakfast on the lip of a lion. All fair in love and war. I'm barely prolific and incredibly lazy. Everything in this book may be wrong. [The Savior's Manual] One gift creates appreciation, many gifts create expectation. The one who cannot restrain their anger will wish undone, what their temper and irritation prompted them to do. Think not I am what I appear. When you reach for the stars, you may not quite get one, but you won't come up with a handful of mud either. Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another. Too much humility is pride. I have a horror of people who speak about the beautiful. What is the beautiful? One must speak of problems in painting!