One must take what nature gives as one finds it.

Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.

Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.

Life isn't worth living, unless it is lived for someone else.

Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions.

Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.

Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.

The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.

God is clever but not dishonest.

Try not to become a man of success but rather a man of value.

Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.

When they're gone out of his head, these words, they'll be gone, everywhere, forever. As if they had never been.

My eyes are open and I’m not seeing a thing because I am so lost inside.

I had done all that I could, and no Man is well pleased to have his all neglected, be it ever so little.

For me, literature is a way of enlarging myself by learning about people who are not like me.

Silence often expresses 'more powerfully than speech the verdict and judgment of society.

Do not feel safe. The poet remembers. You can kill one, but another is born. The words are written down, the deed, the date.

There's a great adage that says we sing because what we have to express can't be spoken, just using words.

You know someone for a while and then one day a hole opens underneath them, and they fall out of your world.

But opinions, judgments, memories, dreaming about the future—ninety percent of the thoughts spinning around in our heads have no essential reality.

I don't know where my father is from. I just don't. He's lived in so many countries.