If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. If they don't, they never were.

Our anxiety does not come from thinking about the future, but from wanting to control it.

Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children.

When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.

We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.

When you reach the end of what you should know, you will be at the beginning of what you should sense.

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

I love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple, pray in your church. For you and I are sons of one religion, and it is the spirit.

If your heart is a volcano, how shall you expect flowers to bloom?

You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.

Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary.

This goes to show you that sometimes the unseen is not to be feared and that those meant to love us most are not always ones who do.

Keep climbing, ' he told himself.'Cheeseburgers, ' his stomach replied.'Shut up, ' he thought.'With fries, ' his stomach complained.

If you don't accept failure as a possibility, you don't set high goals, you don't branch out, you don't try - you don't take the risk.

But in a lot of ways my poems are very conventional, and it's no big deal for me to write a poem in either free verse or strict form; modern poets can, and do, do both.

What if she figures out you're not very smart?

The people may be made to follow a path of action but they may not be made to understand it.

Doorman - a genius who can open the door of your car with one hand, help you in with the other, and still have one left for the tip.

There is no democracy in Russia. Dictators do not go away through the vote. Putin relies on riot police, thousands of them, with heavy equipment, fighting Russian youngsters from opposition.

I hope you will no longer accuse me of a lack of delicacy. as I now count on your understanding.

People like terra firma, and they should be allowed to walk where they wish.