Poetry must be simple, sensuous, or impassioned.

Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.

Kindle the taper like the steadfast star Ablaze on evening's forehead o'er the earth, And add each night a lustre till afar An eightfold splendor shine above thy hearth.

Until we are all free, we are none of us free.

Life's sharpest rapture is surcease of pain.

My own curiosity and interest are insatiable.

There is no comfort looking forth nor back, The present gives the lie to all her past.

I am never going to write for the sake of writing.

No man had ever heard a nightingale, When once a keen-eyed naturalist was stirred To study and define -- what is a bird.

I seem to have always one little window looking but into life.

When angels visit earth, the messengers Of God's decree, they come as lightning, wind: Before the throne, they all are living fire.

A writer is someone who has taught his mind to misbehave.

What will make you great today will never make you great tomorrow! The airplane that Wilbur and Orville Wright invented in 1906 would be seen as a scrap today. It becomes valueless with time.

Anticipation is the greater part of pleasure.

You do have to love your kids enough to let them hate you. But it's the disease that's hating you, not them.

A woman is faithful to her first lover for a long time - unless she happens to take a second.

The first book that really knocked me out was the 'Brothers Karamazov.' I read it when I was a senior in high school.

Humility is not cowardice. Meekness is not weakness. Humility and meekness are indeed spiritual powers.

it's your own fault for encouraging him..., you know. Now he thinks he's a human being. Neal of Queens cove

When a child has no hope, a nation has no future.

Karma is the root cause of success and failure in every aspect of life.