It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself.

To wear your heart on your sleeve isn't a very good plan; you should wear it inside, where it functions best.

Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody, I think that is a much greater hunger, a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat.

The mind that finds its way to wild places is the poet's; but the mind that never finds its way back is the lunatic's.

I believe today that my conduct is in accordance with the will of the Almighty Creator

Central banks don't have divine wisdom. They try to do the best analysis they can and must be prepared to stand or fall by the quality of that analysis.

It is the story that owns and directs us. It is the thing that makes us different from cattle; it is the mark on the face that sets one people apart from their neighbors.

Rich men's houses are seldom beautiful, rarely comfortable, and never original. It is a constant source of surprise to people of moderate means to observe how little a big fortune contributes to Beauty.

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

Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change.

When the student is ready, the teacher will appear.

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.

True valor lies between cowardice and rashness.

The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good thing for the first time.

The speed of the leader is the speed of the gang.

Passion goes, Boredom remains.

I am dying from the treatment of too many physicians.

I've always had an obligation to creation, above all.

It seldom happens that any felicity comes so pure as not to be tempered and allayed by some mixture of sorrow.

External nature is only internal nature writ large.

With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.