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.

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.

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

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.

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.

The Lord doesn't want anybody in His house who has to be dragged there.

A grieving son was given the opportunity to write parting words on a card at his mother's funeral. He quoted the verse, "And morning came and Jesus was standing on the shore.

I saw for the first time that I could stop giving people the power to make me feel disrespected. In my anger I began to see the absurdity of allowing this boy to shame me.

Want? Yes, she whispered, her eyes sliding closed. Yes I want to keep you more than I want to breathe.

Scoring goals is like making love: everyone can do it, but nobody does it like me.

A chair must be really important as an object, because my mother always told me to offer my chair to a lady

The music is the void. And you're the reason why.

A triptych in which the presiding deities are Mother, England and Me.

The central icon of Catholic Christianity is mother and child. That motif is so deep in not just our human experience but in our animal, biological past.

Few of us can actually change the world. We can only change ourselves. But if enough people took that to heart, the world would change.