I don't think any government has the means to protect us from the world reality.

I'd like to think...that people in pubs would talk about my poems

Sometimes, from beyond the skycrapers, the cry of a tugboat finds you in your insomnia, and you remember that this desert of iron and cement is an island.

No mortal is alert enough to be present at the first dawn of spring.

Its difficult to do something radically new, unless you are at the heart of a company.

As soon as you willfully allow a dialogue with temptation to begin, the soul is robbed of peace, just as consent to impurity destroys grace.

Brilliant minds make errors, brave souls falter, kind hearts leave scars. We are none of us perfect, but we're all perfectly human.

The public doesn't mind people living together without being married, providing they don't overdo it.

God helps those who work, not those who are idle. No one helps an inactive person, but one who joins in the labor. The good God himself will bring...work to perfection.

I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life.