Thought is the labour of the intellect reverie is its pleasure.

Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.

It is not enough to be happy, one must be content.

Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

To love beauty is to see light.

An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise.

The future has several names. For the weak, it is impossible; for the fainthearted, it is unknown; but for the valiant, it is ideal.

Go out in the world and work like money doesn't matter, sing as if no one is listening, love as if you have never been hurt, and dance as if no one is watching.

When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right.

Music expresses that which cannot be put into words.

There is nothing like a dream to create the future.

At the end of the line, lies a new beginning.

Discover what you love to do the most, and strengthen it.

Most people are fine with fineand okay with okay.If you want to be the best youcan be, make sure you’re not.

If one doesn't respect oneself one can have neither love nor respect for others.

I write slowly by hand. Publishing is effectively bankrupt for you unless you are Danielle Steele. It takes a year to write book and advances are going down or disappearing.

We recognise in the finished art, which is the result of these conditions, the best words in the best order - poetry; and to put this essential poetry into different classes is impossible.

I prefer old books and find them more relevant. I dislike new books. It's like drinking wine that's not ready.

If you want something Scottish, go get yourself a kilt.

When poets go off the boil, they sound like bumble bees; when critics do, they sound like sewing machines.

If you're not falling, you're not training hard enough.