One of the first obligations of art is to make all useful things beautiful.

There are two ways of spreading light: to be The candle or the mirror that reflects it.

The desire for symmetry, for balance, for rhythm in form as well as in sound, is one of the most inveterate of human instincts.

To visit Morocco is still like turning the pages of some illuminated Persian manuscript all embroidered with bright shapes and subtle lines.

One can remain alive ... if one is unafraid of change, insatiable in intellectual curiosity interested in big things and happy in small ways.

If only we'd stop trying to be happy, we could have a pretty good time.

The real loneliness is living among all these kind people who only ask one to pretend!

Nothing is more perplexing to a man than the mental process of a woman who reasons her emotions.

One of the great things about travel is you find out how many good, kind people there are.

Set wide the window. Let me drink the day.

Life is always either; a tight -rope or a feather-bed . — Give me the tightrope.

No one is going to put their life on hold and do it for you – they are too busy frantically peddling their own lives along to stop and give you a hand.

The Canis Lupus, both wolf and man, were meant to be a family with one another. We gain strength through our bond with each other.

If you have confidence you have patience. Confidence, that is everything.

Some people believe in telling stories. Some believe in doing things about which stories will be told in times to come.

Only a weak mind seeks ultimate answers.

Other countries care for their mentally ill. Making them debate on TV is just cruel.

If you love someone set them free. If they come back, set them on fire.

So to conduct one's life as to realize oneself-this seems to me the highest attainment possible to a human being. It is the task of one and all of us, but most of us bungle it.

I didn't write poems for a number of years after graduate school because the criticisms of other students in the workshops wouldn't quiet down in my mind when I tried to work.

Lyndon Johnson rose above the doubt and fear to hold this Nation on course until we rediscovered our faith in ourselves.