The great poet is always a seer, seeing less with the eyes of the body than he does with the eyes of the mind.

The best way to appreciate your job is to imagine yourself without one.

Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.

Always forgive your enemies nothing annoys them so much.

It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.

Everyone may not be good, but there's always something good in everyone. Never judge anyone shortly because every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

Be yourself; everyone else is taken.

Women are made to be loved, not understood.

Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.

I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.

For every moment of triumph, for every instance of beauty, many souls must be trampled.

Books turn people into isolated individuals, and once that's happened, the road only grows rockier. Books wire you to want to be Steve McQueen, but the world wants you to be [email protected].

We can't just run away. It's our land. Our people. We have a duty.

Energy and persistence conquer all things.

When a person does something, it has the man or woman look about it. It drips with humanity. You can follow the logic of it and see the meaning behind it.

Sarcasm is an abuse of the intellect.

I'm not interested in how people dress.

Leadership is the activity of influencing people to cooperate towards some goal which they come to find desirable and which motivates them over the long haul.

Worship is the believer's response of all that they are - mind, emotions, will, body - to what God is and says and does.

I think the air is out of the gun control balloon, and I think what popped the balloon is politics and elections.