To have ruined one's self over poetry is an honour

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.

Challenges will come that is inevitable. But they can’t easily destroy your future than your own appetite.

The strike, the boycott, the refusal to serve, the ability to paralyze the functioning of a complex social structure-these remain potent weapons against the most fearsome state or corporate power.

I now know all the people worth knowing in America, and I find no intellect comparable to my own.

The language of the poem is the language of particulars.

It is not necessary to bury the truth. It is sufficient merely to delay it until nobody cares.

Google can bring you back 100,000 answers. A librarian can bring you back the right one.

Brewing a good cuppa is something not everyone can do, and I loathe bad tea.

I graduated from school for graphic design, and I started to get into acting class just to get over severe fright. I was an extremely shy person. I could barely say hello to anybody.

The greatest empiricists among us are only empiricists on reflection: when left to their instincts, they dogmatize like infallible popes.

By silence, I hear other men's imperfections and conceal my own.