I look at autism like a bus accident, and you don't become cured from a bus accident, but you can recover.
Virture offers the only path in this life that leads to tranquility.
The venal herd. [Lat. , Venale pecus. ]
Of the woes Of unhappy poverty, none is more difficult to bear Than that it heaps men with ridicule.
Whatever guilt is perpetrated by some evil prompting, is grievous to the author of the crime. This is the first punishment of guilt that no one who is guilty is acquitted at the judgment seat of his own conscience. [Lat. , Exemplo quodcumque malo committitur, ipsi Displicet auctori. Prima est haec ultio, quod se Judice nemo nocens absolvitur. ]
Our prayers should be for a sound mind in a healthy body. [Lat. , Orandum est ut sit mens sana in corpore sano. ]
A rare bird on this earth, like nothing so much as a black swan.
It's that I wasn't suited to do the kind of comedy that these people were coming to hear - mainstream comedy.
Man must do his part and detach himself from created things.
I have tried to write songs quickly that get scrapped. I've also taken a long time on songs that get scrapped because you can over-think something, and you've squeezed the life out of it. As opposed to work of art, it looks like a really great work of craftsmanship.
No self is of itself alone. It has a long chain of intellectual ancestors. The 'I' is chained to ancestry by many factors. . . This is not mere allegory, but an eternal memory.