Most people do not believe in anything very much and our greatest poetry is given to us by those who do.

Fallen leaves lying on the grass in the November sun bring more happiness than the daffodils.

Green leaves on a dead tree is our epitaph-green leaves, dear reader, on a dead tree.

There is no more sombre enemy of good art than the pram in the hall.

We may assume that we keep people waiting symbolically because we do not wish to see them and that our anxiety is due not to being late, but to having to see them at all.

Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self.

No city should be too large for a man to walk out of in a morning.

The true index of a man's character is the health of his wife.

There are many who dare not kill themselves for fear of what the neighbours will say.

While thoughts exist, words are alive and literature becomes an escape, not from, but into living.

All charming people have something to conceal, usually their total dependence on the appreciation of others.

Some people are like swings...They give us an exciting thing to do for a while..Thereafter leave us alone, dizzy and not very far ahead in life...

A virtuous, ordinary life, striving for wisdom but never far from folly, is achievement enough.

Youth should stay away from all evil, especially things that produce wickedness and ill-will.

When 'Being Rushed' is the problem . . . Rushing is never the solution.

life's best balm - Forgetfulness!

I was a boy soprano. I had a natural kind of voice and then trained it after my voice changed.

The most important thing is to be strong. With strength, one can conquer others, and to conquer others gives one virtue.

The holy days are the best times to focus on real enthusiasm, the inner source that lightens and sanctifies our lives all year.

You are not your mistakes. Just because you have done something stupid does not make you stupid.

Everything will eventually come to an end, So try to savor the moment, cause time flies, don't it? The beauty of life, you gotta make it last for the better, Cause nothin' lasts forever.