Original art emanates in the mind ... and lessons society's confusion from self indulgence, avarice and greed to trust, hope and love.

Anything you assume ownership of, it will strike back at you. Ultimately, even at the time of death, whomever you've had excessive intent of ownership, it will all become painful.

Faith is simply jumping from heights and believing that the parachute activation button won't disappoint.

Indeed upon much that may have to say, I expect rather the charitable judgment than the full assent of those whose approbation I could most wish to win.

We may have been like needles in a hay stack, but they were like needles . . . in a stack of needles

If the poet wants to be a poet, the poet must force the poet to revise. If the poet doesn't wish to revise, let the poet abandon poetry and take up stamp-collecting or real estate.

We need a different conception of happiness, more enduring and more genuine, not dependent on external circumstances.

A midnight knock on the door followed by execution is no way a leader should be treated.

Fashion is defined by what later becomes out of fashion.