Nothing is more painful to me than the disdain with which people treat second-rate authors, as if there were room only for the first-raters.

With everyone born human, a poet - an artist - is born, who dies young and who is survived by an adult.

Nature wants us to enjoy life to the full and die without giving it a second thought; Christianity wants the opposite.

Each man must look to himself to teach him the meaning of life. It is not something discovered: it is something molded.

There are people whose clocks stop at a certain point in their lives.

I have always thought that if we began for one moment to say what we thought, society would collapse.

Despair itself if it goes on long enough, can become a kind of sanctuary in which one settles down and feels at ease.

If you want to succeed, limit yourself.

In most men there exists a poet who died young, whom the man survived.

Since it is necessary to have enemies, let us endeavour to have those who do us honour.

Most celebrated men live in a condition of prostitution.

Go to hell, I'm reading!

You may not stop getting older, but you can paint your world with the vibrant colors of love to keep feeling younger.

There is nothing so disobedient as an undisciplined mind, and there is nothing so obedient as a disciplined mind.

I think human arrogance will be the demise of civilization.

Appearances are deceiving.

If I had only one hour to save the world, I would spend fifty-five minutes defining the problem, and only five minutes finding the solution.

I began writing in the 4th grade. As a matter of fact, I produced a play for the entire school. It was about Leif Ericson and the discovery of America.

There are some things that require no work, and healing is one of them.

It is my thought that clean living and a strict observance of the golden rule of true sportsmanship are foundation stones without which a championship structure cannot be built.

Gifts are abilities God gives us to meet the needs of others in Christ’s name.