I can't believe that God put us on this earth to be ordinary.

I may be weird, but creative wise I have the knowledge to know and believe in my heart that my weirdness makes me unique. It is also in my so called weird that I am also able to know the difference and then stop my complaining and go out and make something somebody has never seen before. I was just ahead of my time that was what that was. xD !

No man can escape his destiny, the next inquiry being how he may best live the time that he has to live.

I like myself, but I won't say I'm as handsome as the bull that kidnapped Europa.

I criticize by creation, not by finding fault.

It does not follow because many books are written by persons born in America that there exists an American literature. Books which imitate or represent the thoughts and life of Europe do not constitute an American literature. Before such can exist, an original idea must animate this nation and fresh currents of life must call into life fresh thoughts along its shores.

Art can only be truly Art by presenting an adequate outward symbol of some fact in the interior life.

In our natural state, we are glorious beings. In the world of illusion, we are lost and imprisoned, slaves to our appetites and our will to false power.

There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do.

You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure about you. We were born to manifest the glory of God that is within us.

But I always felt that I'd rather be provincial hot-tamale than soup without seasoning.

It's okay to be fat. So you're fat. Just be fat and shut up about it.