...Really, there is no greater sin than cowardice; cowards are never saved - that is sure. I can stand everything else but not that.

The world is the great gymnasium where we come to make ourselves strong.

In a conflict between the heart and the brain, follow your heart.

Arise, awake, stop not until your goal is achieved.

Everything is easy when you are busy. But nothing is easy when you are lazy.

Do not lower your goals to the level of your abilities. Instead, raise your abilities to the height of your goals.

Never say NO, Never say, 'I cannot', for you are INFINITE. All the power is WITHIN you. You can do anything.

Take Risks in Your Life If you Win, U Can Lead! If You Lose, You can Guide!

Expansion is life, contraction is death. Love is life, hatred is death.

Society does not go down because of the activities of criminals, But because of the inactivities of the good people.

As long as we require someone else to make us happy, we are slaves.

Every time your work is read, you die several deaths for every word, and poetry is like being flayed alive.

Anyone could father a child. But a good parent puts his child's needs before his own. A parent should be selfless not selfish.

Regardless of how far we have come, we are still looking for answers. While many are being answered, what we really want to know is how we can make our lives better.

I'd like to set things straight, a few more people should be pulling their weight.

Reason is an historian, but the passions are actors.

I resent performing for frisking idiots who don't know anything.

The act of writing is a kind of catharsis, a liberation, but I never really concerned myself with that. I write because it interests me.

The way something is presented will define the way you react to it.

Before I begin, let me say right here and now that I'm a country boy. And, man, I mean the real backwoods! That's at the start of the start of the thing, and that's at the heart of the thing.

My gut was always that if I taught students poetry, I would give too much of myself to them and have nothing left.