Sentimental poetry differs from naive poetry in that it relates the real state at which the latter stops to ideas and applies ideas to that reality.

Lose not yourself in a far off time, seize the moment that is thine.

When you are not happy with your life, always think that someone is happy simply because you exist

It is difficult to discriminate the voice of truth from amid the clamor raised by heated partisans.

Even the weak become strong when they are united.

Happy he who learns to bear what he cannot change.

Did you think the lion was sleeping because he didn't roar?

Every true genius is bound to be naive.

Keep true to the dreams of your youth.

Mankind is made great or little by its own will.

Art is the daughter of freedom.

Reading leads to knowledge and wise ways of living.

In fiction writing, I would say there are several different strands that have been woven through my own writing, and each influenced by a different group of writers.

The land-relation is still strictly economic, entailing privileges but not obligations

When you quit drinking you stop waiting.

There is nothing going on. I took nothing you wanted. You can't have it back.

Every time we buy a CD or download a song, the artist is paid for their work. You might not know that this isn't the case when a musician's work is played on the radio.

Just the minute the FBI begins making recommendations on what should be done with its information, it becomes a Gestapo.

By the end of the 1970s Britain was in a mess.

Bloggers intent on self-expression which renders no service to readers don't get read.

The cause is hidden; the effect is visible to all.