People always sound so proud when they announce they know nothing of music.

It is best to act with confidence, no matter how little right you have to it.

Things start out as hopes and end up as habits.

There are people who eat the earth and eat all the people on it like in the Bible with the locusts. And other people who stand around and watch them eat.

Since when do you have to agree with people to defend them from injustice?

People change and forget to tell each other.

It's a sad day when you find out that it's not accident or time or fortune, but just yourself that kept things from you.

Nobody knows what you want except you, and no one will be as sorry as you if you don't get it.

I like people who refuse to speak until they are ready to speak.

I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions.

For every man who lives without freedom, the rest of us must face the guilt.

Cultivate the art of maximizing serendipitous opportunities.

Sometimes poetry is inspired by the conversation entered into by reading other poems.

The worst thing that can happen to you as an artist is for you to lose faith in yourself.

I'm such a happy, easygoing person.

The origin and the causes of disease are far too recondite for the human mind to unravel them.

Goals are to be set clear without frills. Do not be deterred and take reality as it is, not as it should be.

I have never experienced another human being. I have experienced my impressions of them.

My personal philosophy is, you can be sure of nothing.

When one is friend on himself, also is friend of everybody.