I am the captain of my destiny, I do not abandon the ship in hard times, But, I do have sense enough not to go down with the ship.

We do not remember days, we remember moments.

The only joy in the world is to begin.

Life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic.

Remember, writing poetry is like making love: one will never know whether one's own pleasure is shared.

We do not free ourselves from something by avoiding it, but only by living though it.

Lessons are not given, they are taken.

The only joy in the world is to begin. It is good to be alive because living is beginning, always, every moment.

The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies. The fearful thing about it is that, not knowing what truth may be, we can still recognize lies.

We never remember days, only moments.

Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in this world.

...for if we try to go on protecting them we prevent them from growing up to be ordinary, confident adults, capable of looking after themselves.

LOVE should be the inspiration when Lover is the Surprise, and when LOVE is the Surprise, then Loved one must be the inspiration!

You have left too much of yourself in this land for it not to be yours. I, too, will always be yours, for you have left too much of yourself with me for it to be otherwise.

I am a person of the 18th century.

I'm admittedly a record guy. Singles and I are a different beast. I'm definitely an overall picture thinker.

Don't worry about yesterday it ended last night at midnight.

Literature is not a subject of study, but an object of study.

Unless somebody who's already eleven thousand times platinum is like, "We're ushering this project in," it's not really gonna pop commercially.

Success does not come all at once; even for masters it comes in stages, separated by years.