All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer.

Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.

You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.

We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend.

A friend is a gift you give yourself.

Do not measure success by today's harvest. Measure success by the seeds you plant today.

Make the most of the best and the least of the worst.

An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.

I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.

Nothing more strongly arouses our disgust than cannibalism, yet we make the same impression on Buddhists and vegetarians, for we feed on babies, though not our own.

It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser.

They can do without architecture who have no olives nor wines in the cellar

...lose your mind so that you can gain a new way of knowing.

Tennis is the loneliest sport.

Tintoretto attempted to fill the line of Michelangelo with color, without tracing its principle.

Without being good enough, I started figuring out how to make my way through the minefield of a script, which is what it was to me at the time, and the rest is semi-history.

There are only two ways: either we love-and love in action is service - or we put hatred into action and destroy.

When I was asked to be Writer in Residence at Edinburgh I thought, you can't teach poetry. This is ridiculous.

Nothing could be more dangerous to the existence of this Republic than to introduce religion into politics

I think it's important that people stand up for what they believe in. It's important that people discuss things.

You know, throughout the world, throughout history, when countries get rich, they stop having kids.