The gift of independence once granted cannot be lightly taken away again.

Love is a universal migraine. A bright stain on the vision, Blotting out reason.

There is no such thing as good writing, only good rewriting.

There's no money in poetry, but then there's no poetry in money, either.

Every English poet should master the rules of grammar before he attempts to bend or break them.

The remarkable thing about Shakespeare is that he really is very good, in spite of all the people who say he is very good.

Kill if you must, but never hate: Man is but grass and hate is blight, The sun will scorch you soon or late, Die wholesome then, since you must fight

I was last in Rome in AD 540 when it was full of Goths and their heavy horses. It has changed a great deal since then.

New beginnings and new shoots Spring again from hidden roots Pull or stab or cut or burn, Love must ever yet return.

What we now call "finance" is, I hold, an intellectual perversion of what began as warm human love.

I was thinking, "So, I’m Emperor, am I? What nonsense! But at least I'll be able to make people read my books now.

Problems go away because someone does something about them! What are you doing about the problems or challenges around you? Don’t just complain…..Act and now!

All social interactions require some loss of freedom.

The more this guy talked, the more he sounded like a fortune cookie.

Art is to me the glorification of the human spirit, and as such it is the cultural documentation of the time in which it is produced.

[S]cience has itself become a kind of religion.

Is it not the artist who - like our dreams - dissolves the pretenses that hide us from ourselves, disclosing both our self-serving fantasies and our unsuspected potentialities?

A life of kindness is the primary meaning of divine worship.

Sometimes we are just divided, but we still, for the most part, we have similar hopes and dreams.

It was one of those things that had to be experienced to be understood

You know you're an Arizona native when you have to look up "mass transit" in the dictionary.