Richard Taite

It doesn’t matter how slow you go as long as you don’t stop.

When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.

When you want nothing from anyone else, you’re safe for anyone to be with. Including yourself.

From a certain point onward there is no longer any turning back. That is the point that must be reached.

You get what you ask for in this life. If you ask for nothing, you get nothing.

Water from the white fountain didn’t taste any better than from the black fountain.

Three most deleterious things of modern life in their present order of importance are: tobacco, alcohol and intemperate eating. Both alcohol and tobacco are taboo in plants.

When I was a little girl, I so wanted to be sociable, but I was scared that I wasn’t going to be able to speak a sentence because I had such a bad stammer.

Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together.

The men of always aren’t interested in the children of never.

I want to walk through life instead of being dragged through it.

You philosophers are lucky men. You write on paper and paper is patient. Unfortunate Empress that I am, I write on the susceptible skins of living beings.

You are only as happy as your saddest child.

I don’t let go of concepts – I meet them with understanding. Then they let go of me.

The thing is, she’s got heart, a colossal, mesmerizing one. She gives me a green flash love, the type you are rarely lucky enough to see but when you do, your entire sky is changed forever.