The immature poet imitates, the mature poet plagiarizes.

It is never too late to be what you might have been.

Most of the trouble in the world is caused by people wanting to be important.

Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.

We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.

If we really want to pray we must first learn to listen, for in the silence of the heart God speaks.

I learn a great deal by merely observing you, and letting you talk as long as you please, and taking note of what you do not say.

Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?

Finding a way to live the simple life is one of life's supreme complications.

April is the cruelest month, breeding lilacs out of the dead land, mixing memory and desire, stirring dull roots with spring rain.

The journey, Not the destination matters.

I counted the living and gathered them within me and the light that broke through embraced all the life that I had within me...

Learn from past experiences but accept them all as perfect while staying in the present. Let go of everything that doesn't serve you.

We don't want someone who will get 98 percent of the vote. We want someone who will get 51 percent of the vote.

One can never pay in gratitude; one can only pay 'in kind' somewhere else in life.

An armed society is a free society.

He didn't even have the satisfaction of being killed for civil rights... it had to be some silly little Communist.

Art is the image of life, it's purpose simply to enhance it.

I think in some ways you learn more from the things you don't like than the things you do.

Maybe if he did really well they'd give him some mouldy apples.

Sometimes when the going gets tough, people give up.