There are women who fly their falcons at any game, little birds and all.

It is not in the nature of politics that the best men should be elected. The best men do not want to govern their fellowmen.

A man's real belief is that which he lives by. What a man believes is the thing he does, not the thing he thinks.

Never tell a child 'you have a soul.' Teach him, you are a soul; you have a body.

If instead of a gem, or even a flower, we should cast the gift of a loving thought into the heart of a friend, that would be giving as the angels give.

Forgiveness unleashes joy. It brings peace. It washes the slate clean. It sets all the highest values of love in motion.

Any faith in Him, however small, is better than any belief about Him, however great.

No man ever sank under the burden of the day. It is when tomorrow's burden is added to the burden of today that the weight is more than a man can bear.

To be trusted is a greater compliment than being loved.

It is by loving and not by being loved that one can come nearest to the soul of another.

How strange this fear of death is! We are never frightened at a sunset.

My father always said that government is like watching another man piss in your boot. Someone feels better but it certainly isn't you.

But the insane need to do it was stronger than the sense of whether it was a wrong or right thing to do.

Once you are at the point where you can call yourself a writer, there’s no turning back.

I was born tomorrowtoday I liveyesterday killed me

One of the bigger misconceptions of learning is that many skills take a lifetime to get world-class at, or 10, 000 hours to become world-class at.

Just don't let the human factor fail to be a factor at all

If you desire to dig a well to reach water, your efforts are more fruitful if you dig one 100-foot-deep hole than if you dig ten holes each 10 feet deep.

What I prefer is an audience who listen. And are intelligent. Which I try and assume every audience is. And that if something goes wrong, it's generally my fault and not theirs.

An ignorant man ages like an ox. His flesh may increase, but not his understanding.

Every poem that I write is, in a sense, trying to find adequate words for this unspeakable word, around which my entire life turns.