Some of our children are our justifications and some are but our regrets.

When you reach the end of what you should know, you will be at the beginning of what you should sense.

If your heart is a volcano, how shall you expect flowers to bloom?

Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary.

Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.

Trees are poems that the earth writes upon the sky.

You cannot judge any man beyond your knowledge of him, and how small is your knowledge.

Words are timeless. You should utter them or write them with a knowledge of their timelessness.

My loneliness was born when men praised my talkative faults and blamed my silent virtues.

A sense of humour is a sense of proportion.

All our words are but crumbs that fall down from the feast of the mind.

September 11th was a moment when America had the sympathy of the world.

A kind heart is a fountain of gladness, making everything in its vicinity freshen into smiles.

If everyone were not so indolent they would realise that beauty is beauty even when it is irritating and stimulating not only when it is accepted and classic.

In my day-to-day, I do a bit of yoga, I go biking, I read, I watch shows, I go to music concerts.

I have to just go in and audition, like everyone else, and fight my way to the top.

Curiosity is the greatest source of ideas, retail revolutions, and insights.

Machine intelligence of a human nature could be a century away, and immortality is at least a millennium away, if not unattainable altogether.

Dancing to a great song with great friends and lots of laughter makes me come alive.

He [Charles II] was utterly without ambition. He detested business, and would sooner have abdicated his crown than have undergone the trouble of really directing the administration.

I am about to take my last voyage, a great leap in the dark.