Love, the poet said, is woman's whole existence.

Better was it to go unknown and leave behind you an arch, then to burn like a meteor and leave no dust.

He who robs us of our dreams robs us of our life.

. . . clumsiness is often mated with a love of solitude.

As long as she thinks of a man, nobody objects to a woman thinking.

Nothing thicker than a knife's blade separates happiness from melancholy.

Vain trifles as they seem, clothes have, they say, more important offices than to merely keep us warm. They change our view of the world and the world's view of us.

By the truth we are undone. Life is a dream. 'Tis the waking that kills us. He who robs us of our dreams robs us of our life.

The flower bloomed and faded. The sun rose and sank. The lover loved and went. And what the poets said in rhyme, the young translated into practice.

Was not writing poetry a secret transaction, a voice answering a voice?

Are we so made that we have to take death in small doses daily or we could not go on with the business of living?

At least when it comes to light pollution what happens in Vegas does not stay in Vegas.

When a marriage works, nothing on earth can take its place.

I don't build a house without predicting the end of the present social order.

Happiness is a privilege.

I could not write about a subject sacred to me because I would be too flippant. Fortunately, there are no subjects sacred to me.

Of all man's inborn dispositions there is none more heroic than the love in him. Everything else accepts defeat and dies, but love will fight no-love every inch of the way.

To be fully human is...to know that it's possible to face the unimaginable and somehow put one foot in front of the other.

When the enemy is at ease, be able to weary him; when well fed, to starve him; when at rest, to make him move. Appear at places to which he must hasten; move swiftly where he does not expect you.

Nature is not a drag on growth - its protection is an unavoidable prerequisite for sustaining economic development.

Ten men in our country could buy the whole world and ten million can't buy enough to eat.