The days of the future stand in fornt of usLike a line of candles all alightGolden and warm and lively little candlesThe days that are past are left behind

Άλλα ζητεί η ψυχή σου, γι’ άλλα κλαίει·

I have gazed so much on beautythat my eyes overflow with it.

Pray that the summer mornings are many when with such pleasure, with such joy you will enter ports seen for the first time

In some strange way, any new fact or insight that I may have found has not seemed to me as a “discovery” of mine, but rather something that had always been there and that I had chanced to pick up.

It's already figured out.

For a war to be just three conditions are necessary - public authority, just cause, right motive.

It is easier to lead men to combat, stirring up their passion, than to restrain them and direct them toward the patient labors of peace.

The way to become a poet is to read poetry and to imitate what you read and to read passionately and widely and in as involved a way as you can.

If we don't like what's happening to us in the world, all we have to do is change our consciousness - and the world out there changes for us!

We are as often duped by diffidence as by confidence.

We did not happen to be--we were chosen by God to exist.

My parents taught me a long time ago that you win in life with people, and that's important, because if you hang with winners, you stand a great chance of being a winner.

Spry is not a look, spry is behavior.