Know that however ugly the parts appear the whole remains beautiful.

Seagulls . . . slim yachts of the element.

Meteors are not needed less than mountains: shine, perishing republic.

Imagination, the traitor of the mind, has taken my solitude and slain it.

You making haste on decay: not blameworthy; life is good, be it stubbornly long or suddenly A mortal splendor: meteors are not needed less than mountains: shine, perishing republic.

Cruelty is a part of nature, at least of human nature, but it is the one thing that seems unnatural to us.

It is only a little planet, but how beautiful it is.

Long live freedom and damn the ideologies.

A little too abstract, a little too wise, It is time for us to kiss the earth again, It is time to let the leaves rain from the skies, Let the rich life run to the roots again.

Still the mind smiles at its own rebellions.

Poetry is not a civilizer, rather the reverse, for great poetry appeals to the most primitive instincts.

I wanted the fairytale.

Nothing puzzles me more than time and space yet nothing troubles me less.

Be intent upon the perfection of the present day.

Those who were high go down low, and those who've been low go up higher.

If we love something similar to ourselves, we endeavor, as far as we can, to bring it about that it should love us in return.

Without focusing and getting to clarity you cannot lead. You cannot motivate. You cannot plan. You cannot communicate.

I've sort of escaped my background, as people often do, through art and culture.

I love being in the moment. I love my family. I love chocolate. I love baking.

advocating women's rights and greater opportunity for women in the workplace and in every avenue of public life is inconsistent with an insistence on mother taking care of children and housework.

A true heiress is never mean to anyone - except a girl who steals your boyfriend.