I had a lover's quarrel with the world.

In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.

By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day.

The best way out is always through.

Two roads diverged in a wood and I - I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.

But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep, and miles to go before I sleep.

Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.

Live life like its the last breath you take for that breath is the whole essence of living, the little things in life are what connects us to all the big things we live for

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.

A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.

Before I built a wall I'd ask to know what I was walling in or walling out.

When you give yourself fully with your mind and body to a mission, you can get more than 100% returns.

I hate you. I love you. But I am free.

We cling to the most painful reminders of our youth, our memories or our injuries, perhaps so we can look back to our former selves, console them, and say: Keep going. I know how the story ends.

I turn, then, and look to the American people and to that God who has never forsaken them.

What I admire in Columbus is not his having discovered a new world but his having gone to search for it on the faith of an opinion.

Writing is not primarily escape, but use.

Quick music sounds dull unless every note is articulated.

These bits of poetry that stick to her like burrs.

Don't ever let your memories be bigger than your dreams.

[The] whirlwind fife-and-drum of the storm bends the salt marsh grass, disturbs stars in the sky and the star on the steeple; it is a privilege to see so much confusion.