Have you ever thought about how great you would look standing in the land of success and happiness?

No struggle, no success. The stronger the thunder, the heavier the rainfall

Tranquility is not weakness

what I like and what I need’s two different things.

If there is anything more annoying in the world than having people talk about you, it is certainly having no one talk about you.

Banish, therefore, from thy heart the distractions of earth and turn thine eyes to spiritual joys, that thou mayest learn at last to repose in the light of the contemplation of God.

In going abroad we change the climate not our dispositions.

Everyone needs help from everyone else.

I think there is no mantra for success. One just has to be positive and keep doing good work. One must keep moving forward and not think much.

Somewhere back a whiskey or so ago I wrote that thinking was a real thing in the world, just like anything else. I mean that very literally, materially. And it's true about poems, too.

One outcome is almost certain. Extremism stands to benefit enormously from an uncalculated adventure in Iraq.