A lion is made up of the lambs he's digested.

Every man of action has a strong dose of egoism, pride, hardness, and cunning. But all those things will be regarded as high qualities if he can make them the means to achieve great ends.

For poetry there exists neither large countries nor small. Its domain is in the heart of all men.

Like a bird with broken wing that has traveled through wind for years . . . I sleep and my heart stays awake . . .

They were lovely, your eyes, but you didn't know where to look.

I think the Swedish Academy wished to manifest its solidarity with the living spirit of Greece today.

Leaves like rusty tin for the desolate mind that has seen the end- the barest glimmerings. Leaves aswirl with gulls made wild by winter.

And if the soul Is to know itself It is into a soul That it must look: The stranger and the enemy, we've seen him in the mirror.

Don't ask me who's influenced me. A lion is made up of all the lambs he's digested, and I've been reading all my life.

Unless you understand the difference between insight and revelation, you will be far from transformation.

You cannot win a war outside until you have won the war that you are fighting inside you first.

The final tormenting, unanswerable question: what is 'success' in mourning?

So upright Quakers please both man and God.

what was time but a convention, a habit of mind, a custom of dress?

At a certain point, I should start to pay attention and make sure I'm not damaging my vocal chords, because I enjoy using them a lot.

Now you pray, and I'm going to pray for you that the Lord will speak to you.

A beautiful woman is a picture which drives all beholders nobly mad.

If you talked to others the way you talk to yourself, would you have any friends?

A positive attitude may not solve all our problems but that is the only option we have if we want to get out of problems.