If the poet spun for half an hour daily, his poetry would gain in richness.

Where there is love there is life.

Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.

True beauty lies in purity of the heart.

The future depends on what you do today.

Fearlessness is the first requisite of spirituality. Cowards can never be moral.

In a gentle way, you can shake the world

You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

They cannot take away our self respect if we do not give it to them.

An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind.

Relationships are based on four principles: respect, understanding, acceptance and appreciation.

It's a sad day when you find out that it's not accident or time or fortune, but just yourself that kept things from you.

Do not change your clothes, change your thoughts.

Libraries are the pride of the city.

If you're in a safe Republican district, say Congressman [ Gus] Bilirakis,you probably don't have much to worry about which is why you can get away with talking about death panels.

In my room as a kid... I'd play a fighter and get knocked to the floor and come back to win.

A good teacher is one who helps you become who you feel yourself to be. A good teacher is also one who says something that you won't understand until 10 years later.

Reth laughed. I punched him. It hurt. Me, not him, unfortunately.

Sing in the shower. Dance to the radio. Tell stories. Write a poem to a friend, even a lousy poem. Do it as well as you possibly can. You will get an enormous reward. You will have created something.

I don't think of Bush as a particularly angry person - if anything, he has a facility for not harboring grudges, for letting things roll off of his back after momentarily bristling.

Human love is mostly selfishness; all the time it thinks only of the little 'i'. That 'i' is the ego.