The creditor hath a better memory than the debtor.

Burn not thy fingers to snuff another man's candle.

Apelles used to paint a good housewife on a snail, to import that she home-keeping.

We learn by teaching.

Respect a man, he will do the more.

Words are the soul's ambassadors, who go / Abroad upon her errands to and fro.

He that hath the name to be an early riser may sleep till noon.

Easter, so longed for, is gone in a day.

Such is the strength of art, rough things to shape.

One hair of a woman can draw more than a hundred pair of oxen.

Distance sometimes endears friendship, and absence sweeteneth it.

The love of truth lies at the root of much humour.

We can invent only with memory.

My last bedside conversation in the hospital just a few weeks before Allen Ginsberg died was 'please take care of so and so. And the legacy of the Kerouac school.

You’re only going to be as good as the stuff you surround yourself with.

It is brave to be involved

The biggest problems were to do with... well, to get that successful when you're so young, it attracts hangers-on, parasites, people who want to feed off you.

Poetry strengthens that faculty which is the organ of the moral nature of man, in the same manner as exercise strengthens a limb.

Nature hates monopolies and exceptions.

Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.

Saving the world happens one person at a time. Be at the front of the queue. Each one of us has to work hard to achieve our collective dream for a healthier planet.