In poetry everything which must be said is almost impossible to say well.

Books have the same enemies as people: fire, humidity, animals, weather, and their own content.

Man's great misfortune is that he has no organ, no kind of eyelid or brake, to mask or block a thought, or all thought, when he wants to.

War: a massacre of people who don't know each other for the profit of people who know each other but don't massacre each other.

A poem is never finished, only abandoned.

Nothing beautiful can be summarized.

The universe is built on a plan the profound symmetry of which is somehow present in the inner structure of our intellect.

A great man is one who leaves others at a loss after he is gone.

Love is being stupid together.

The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.

Let us enrich ourselves with our mutual differences.

I am very confident. I look confident. I act confident. I speak in a confident way...

Rest nurtures creativity, which nurtures activity. Activity nurtures rest, which sustains creativity. Each draws from and contributes to the other.

I don't think humor is forced upon my universe it's a part of it.

To despise riches, may, indeed, be philosophic, but to dispense them worthily, must surely be more beneficial to mankind.

I know for me the subject of how to be in a relationship is precious and complicated and challenging.

A boy without mischief is like a bowling ball without a liquid center.

Happy was she who could believe without seeing, who was at one with the duration and continuity of life.

I would say that I'm 98 percent skeptical, but the other 2 percent [is] open for the possibility of things.

I trust Hillary Clinton as president and commander in chief, but the thought of Donald Trump as commander in chief scares me to death.

I see myself as an instrument of the Almighty and go on my way, regardless of transient opinions and views.