Compelled respect always implies fear.

Summerhill children are allowed to go through their gangster period, and consequentially more furniture is destroyed.

Believe is confident hope.Hope is faith.Faith is timeless possibility.Possibility is spiritual.Spiritual is divine

It is possible to commit no mistakes and still lose. That is not a weakness

Food to eat and games to play.Tell me why, tell me why.Serve it out and eat it up.Have a try, have a try.

My feeling is that poetry will wither on the vine if you don't regularly come back to the simplest fundamentals of the poem: rhythm, rhyme, simple subjects - love, death, war.

Heraclitus says that Pittacus, when he had got Alcæus into his power, released him, saying, "Forgiveness is better than revenge.

I always wished for this, but it's almost turning into more of a nightmare than a dream.

Southerners have a genius for psychological alchemy...If something intolerable simply cannot be changed, driven away or shot they will not only tolerate it but take pride in it as well.

Treat every person you interact with, with the same sort of attention and respect which you hope they will give to you.

Certain things are so important that they need to be discovered alone.

I suppose middle-aged love is interesting for middle-aged people.