Help them, but don't make friends with them.

I was trying to unravel the complicated trigonometry of the radical thought that silence could make up the greatest lie ever told.

The tide was a poem that only time could create, and I watched it stream and brim and makes its steady dash homeward, to the ocean.

Great romantics are granted lots of slack.

I take account of my life and find that I have lived a lot and learned very little.

You must appreciate beauty for it to endure.

One must always forgive another's passion.

I've always admired people who give accurate directions, and the tribe is small.

You're going to act like a happy man. I know, I know. It's the hardest role in the world.

The narrator welcomes new students to his school by offering to tell them who the easy teachers are, or who the good ones are.

I was born in the age of "alas".

Happiness is a state of mind, you know. I don't think you are permanently happy. One is happy about certain things and not so happy about others.

Never do today what you can do tomorrow, because something may occur to make you regret your premature action.

It's never your successful friends posting the inspirational quotes

My life provides me with these images that become expressions of my daily experience.

Christ, if he had been a woman, might have been nothing but a great complainer

When the sun shineth, make hay.

He felt his smile slide away, melt, fold over and down on itself like a tallow skin, like the stuff of a fantastic candle burning too long and now collapsing and now blown out.

We will meet our challenges head on and we will do it by rejecting the politics of mediocrity and corruption. You voted for change; I intend to deliver it. ... I will govern as a reformer.

[My work] is a love song to our mongrel selves.

Want and wealth equally harden the human heart, as frost and fire are both alien to the human flesh. Famine and gluttony alike drive away nature from the heart of man.