The spirit of man is an inward flame; a lamp the world blows upon but never puts out.

A man of honour should never forget what he is because he sees what others are.

You can have everything in life that you want if you just give enough other people what they want.

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.

There is the view that poetry should improve your life. I think people confuse it with the Salvation Army.

Never accept a drink from a urologist.

Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives.

We need to keep hope alive and strive to do better.

Not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means at the point of highest reality.

Nothing is black or white.

That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.

If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn't sit for a month.

Your clothes conceal much of your beauty, yet they hide not the unbeautiful

I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of Beauty.

You’ll miss the best things if you keep your eyes shut.

I will indulge my sorrows, and give way to all the pangs and fury of despair.

Who are you to judge the life I live? I know I'm not perfect-and I don't live to be-but before you start pointing fingers... make sure your hands are clean!

To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul.

Genius is sorrow's child.

True valor lies between cowardice and rashness.

A girl should be two things: classy and fabulous.