Life - life - let there be life!

beyond this place of wrath and tears looms but the horror of the shade

It matters not how strait the gate, How charged with punishments the scroll; I am the master of my fate: I am the captain of my soul.

Men may scoff, and men may pray, But they pay Every pleasure with a pain.

Life is worth Living Through every grain of it, From the foundations To the last edge Of the cornerstone, death.

So many are the deaths we die Before we can be dead indeed.

Here is the ghost Of a summer that lived for us, Ere is a promise Of summer to be.

Under the bludgeonings of chance My head is bloody, but unbowed.

Open your heart and take us in, Love-love and me.

Were I so tall as to reach the pole or grasp the ocean at a span, I must be measured by my soul. The mind is the standard of the man.

Night with her train of stars And her great gift of sleep.

Be what you wish to be.

If your business is not on the Internet, then your business will be out of business.

Luck is what happens to you when fate gets tired of waiting

Don't let aging get you down. It's too hard to get back up.

Think before you speak. Think before you judge. Think before you think you have a person all figured out.

If we are not willing to fail we will never accomplish anything. All creative acts involve the risk of failure.

But if you are going to wear blinders then you do not know the world.

To envy is to draw circles that isolate us from others, to take small, bitter trips that diminish the traveler.

The enigma of cinema is gone because of the focus on business. As soon as you attach numbers to a film, you limit it. Films are meant to be an escape from reality.

First teach a person to develop to the point of his limitation and then-pfft!-break the limitation.