Poetry is the key to the hieroglyphics of nature.

In oratory the will must predominate.

Sudden resolutions, like the sudden rise of mercury in a barometer, indicate little else than the variability of the weather.

The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.

Smiles are the language of love.

Never take advice from anyone with no investment in the outcome.

When you get older, then you feel death not at the end of the road, but death all around you, in everything. Life is saturated with death. I feel death everywhere.

Weak minds sink under prosperity as well as adversity; but strong and deep ones have two high tides.

Thought is the wind and knowledge the sail.

No one but a fool is always right.

Style is the art of getting yourself out of the way, not putting yourself in it.

Surround yourself with things that inspire you every day. Let go of everything that drains your inspiration.

I see the beautyAll around me I see itThe polished faces

It is the most miserable thing to feel ashamed of home.

What a great and happy place the world was! But you had to be big and grown-up before you could do just what you liked.

What is inspiration in strangers is jealousy in kinsmen.

I don't call myself a singer, I'm a voice, lent to music

The reality is that al Qaeda has been trying to attack the United States since long before Iraq.

It is easy to work when the soul is at play.

Upon the progress of knowledge the whole progress of the human race is immediately dependent: he who retards that, hinders this also.

If you are a member of the media, you belong to the public. You've made that Faustian bargain with your public. Take me – all of me – I'm yours.