There is the view that poetry should improve your life. I think people confuse it with the Salvation Army.
Hope is like the sun, which, as we journey toward it, casts the shadow of our burden behind us.
In terms of an identity, an identity reflects an individuality, by definition. And, if there is a quality present, it is recognizable and it can be named. If you can't name it, it means you don't recognize it.
Anything that makes weak - physically, intellectually and spiritually, reject it as poison.
Children are a wonderful gift. They have an extraordinary capacity to see into the heart of things and to expose sham and humbug for what they are.
The last of human freedoms - the ability to chose one's attitude in a given set of circumstances.
I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.
Women have the right to work wherever they want, as long as they have the dinner ready when you get home.
Courage is being scared to death... and saddling up anyway.
I've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catcher's mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw something back.
He who would accomplish little must sacrifice little; he who would achieve much must sacrifice much; he who would attain highly must sacrifice greatly.
I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; and because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do something that I can do.
The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody has decided not to see.
The mystery of the beginning of all things is insoluble by us; and I for one must be content to remain an agnostic
You sort of start thinking anything's possible if you've got enough nerve.
A scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections, - a mere heart of stone.
There's real poetry in the real world. Science is the poetry of reality
I am one of those who think like Nobel, that humanity will draw more good than evil from new discoveries.
As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.
Of puns it has been said that those who most dislike them are those who are least able to utter them.
Be like a tree and let the dead leaves drop.
