It is not flesh and blood, but heart which makes us fathers and sons.

Lose not yourself in a far off time, seize the moment that is thine.

When you are not happy with your life, always think that someone is happy simply because you exist

It is difficult to discriminate the voice of truth from amid the clamor raised by heated partisans.

Even the weak become strong when they are united.

Happy he who learns to bear what he cannot change.

Did you think the lion was sleeping because he didn't roar?

Every true genius is bound to be naive.

Keep true to the dreams of your youth.

Mankind is made great or little by its own will.

Art is the daughter of freedom.

Any fear around ‘imperfection’ is a censoring of life now, and when we censor life we simply cannot sense our innate natural joy.

No more shooting from anyone. Or I am going to get seriously cranky with everyone. Suddenly, and violently and all over the place.

There is in superstition a senseless fear of God.

Beer drinking doesn't do half the harm of lovemaking.

Honestly, I am pretty passionate about avoiding failure!

Mostly the thought and the verse come inseparably. In my poem Poetics, it's as close as I come to telling how I do it.

I'm still walking around New York like a tourist staring up at all the skyscrapers. I wave at people, I shake hands, I help ladies with strollers.

Art is nature as seen through a temperament.

We people in camp are merely big children, wayward and changeable.

There can be no faith without doubt. No strength without temptation. (Rafael)