Poetry depends on being simultaneously opaque and transparent. It can't be only one or the other. The pebble and the pool.

Dreaming illustrates your hidden capacities and your unawakened ability.

You must accept that you can change and that a pattern of principles adhered to and used repeatedly will not only direct your life, but change it permanently.

Success is having consistent work habits.

What makes the great great? It is a sense of destiny.

Having a long term goal provides a catalyst for motivation at every waking moment.

As you move through life, set aside good ideas and give them to others to encourage and inspire.

Almost any poem has to be read twice, first for strangeness, second for clarity.

If a despot like Adolf Hitler can think of 1000-year reign, why can't you think of a goal that is gonna last 100 years after you have gone?

Life is not a dress rehearsal - every day is opening night.

Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.

Even in dreams, you could not fall forever.

That’s the problem with you young people, always thinking everything comes with a price. An act of kindness is just that, nothing more.

Never was a man further from a partiality for Spain than I am. But I think I now have left them in a sincere and steady intention to cultivate the friendship of America.

There is no more alluring airspace in the world than the slit up a China girl's dress.

The great quest of life has always been to discover truth.

Men are all alike - except the one you've met who's different.

I think Queen Elisabeth II is a charming woman.

Atheists in C.S. Lewis' day were as snobbish and arrogant as they are now, but better educated and more capable of debate.

A kingdom that has once been destroyed can never come again into being; nor can the dead ever be brought back to life.