“We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorns have roses.”

“All people have three characters, that which they exhibit, that which they are, and that which they think they are.”

“Happiness is composed of misfortunes avoided.”

“If men knew all that women think, they would be twenty times more audacious.”

“Some people are always grumbling because roses have thorns I am thankful that thorns have roses.”

“Love in marriage should be the accomplishment of a beautiful dream, and not, as it too often is, the end.”

“The motions of the comets are exceedingly regular, and they observe the same laws as the motions of the planets, but they differ from the motions of vortices in every particular and are often contr...”

“Innumerable spirits and souls, when spread out through the same space, do not interfere with each other such that the diffusion of one would affect the diffusion of an infinity of others.”

“Mike Watt and I had the same teacher. Mr. Tanaka.”

“And these thingsthat keep alive on departure know that you praise them; transient,they look to us, the most transient, to be their rescue.They want us to change them completely, in our invisible h...”

“History is the sum total of things that could have been avoided.”

“God is the indwelling and not the transient cause of all things.”

“My Potentials are 600,000 Times More Than I Use Right Now_nickc”

“The more I come to L.A., the more it's amazing.”

“The more we do, the more we can do.”