After Homer and Dante, is a whole century of creating worth one Shakespeare?

Teaching others, he corrected himself.

They blossomed, they did not talk about blossoming.

Whatever others may say, they say it to deceive and comfort themselves, not help you.

It is easy to see the glow but hard to recognize the awakening of silence.

If you are good, they say you are weak.

We hear only our own voices, still echoes returning to our emptiness.

We built tall buildings, but we have not become any taller.

You not only are hunted by others, you unknowingly hunt yourself.

The same word we love and hate, leaves in different directions, taking different paths.

A breeze, a forgotten summer, a smile, all can fit into a storefront window.

You cannot act in the old way, as you got used to, as you have been programmed in your childhood, you will have to change yourself or otherwise you will not survive

Fallibility in a leader is very trying. Isn’t it? They spill so much of other people’s blood.

If everyone were a good person, it'd obviously be a better world.

Never let your correspondence fall behind.

How earthy old people become --moldy as the grave! Their wisdom smacks of the earth. There is no foretaste of immortality in it. They remind me of earthworms and mole crickets.

I did some thinking.” “That is a very dangerous pastime,” Ghastek said.

But as important as the job to be done by government in the neighborhoods, the people must also be involved.

When you invest in people and lift them toward their potential, they will love you for it.

The best thing I ever did in my life was to ask, 'Do I like everybody?' And the answer was, 'No.' So why should everybody like me? If people are against me, so what? I'm against them too.

A true artist takes no notice whatever of the public. The public to him are non-existent.