Life is a state of constant radiation and absorption; to exist is to radiate; to exist is to be the recipient of radiations.

There are times when a man should be content with what he has but never with what he is

Love, in the divine alchemy of life, transmutes all duties into privileges, all responsibilities into joys.

Every man has an atmosphere which is affecting every other.

Education, in its highest sense, is conscious training of mind or body to act unconsciously. It is conscious formation of mental habits, not mere acquisition of information.

Worry is forethought gone to seed.

Man does not drift into goodness...the chance port of an aimless voyage. He must fight ever for his destination.

A fad lives its life in a few weeks; a philosophy lives through generations and centuries; a principle, forever.

Happiness is the soul's joy in the possession of the intangible.

Life is not something to be lived through: it is something to be lived up to. It is a privilege, not a penal servitude of so many decades on earth.

We carry our house plants from one window to another to give them the proper heat, light, and moisture. Should we not be at least as careful of ourselves?

Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.

My mom worked as a pharmacist, but she is one of the best storytellers I know. My sister is a gospel and opera singer and my brother, who passed away, was a writer.

I think when you are doing a song you're trying to give people enough details that they connect.

Launch out into the deep. One discovers by living in scorn of consequence.

My memories are not of time but of times.

If education is to develop human nature so that it may attain the object of its being, it must involve the exercise of judgment.

The way I look at it, a footballer wouldn't play in flip-flops or dip their feet in acid and then expect to get to David Beckham's level. My voice is my living, so I'll be looking after it.

I certainly fall in love with artists. I think that's probably the aspiration of an artist, to make a listener empathize so deeply that they do fall in love with you.

The moment is now and we cant get it back from the grave.

It is fatal to decide, intellectually, what good poetry is because you are then in honour bound to try to write it, instead of the poems that only you can write.