Travel aesthetics should be just as comfortable and practical as they are fashionable.

Action must be taken at once; there is no time to be lost; we shall yet see the oppressors' yoke broken and the fragments scattered on the ground.

Pray, look better, sir... those things yonder are no giants, but windmills.

Never stand begging for that which you have the power to earn.

In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd.

Action must be taken at once, there is no time to be lost.

He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he that loses his courage loses all.

How will he who does not know how to govern himself know how to govern others?

Three things too much, and three too little are pernicious to man; to speak much, and know little; to spend much, and have little; to presume much, and be worth little.

That one man scorned and covered with scars Still strove with his last ounce of courage To reach the unreachable star.

Too much sanity may be madness and the maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be.

Knowledge planted in truth grows in truth.Strength born of peace loses nothing to hate.

When knowledge is put into practice, then through your experience of it, it becomes your insight.

Knowledge is power. In the wrong hands, knowledge is trouble.

Wait for that wisest of all counselores, Time.

Never. I promise you this: they will stay together. They will be safe. My children will be accompanying them to the same home.

If you have the ability to see the things behind the scenes, then you have the greatest talent one can ever have because there is almost always something else behind the things!

You know the mind is an astonishing, long-living, erotic thing.

I believe That angels breathe And that love will live on and never leave

As a kid, when I got to the edge of a cliff I wanted to jump off. I didn't want to kill myself. I wanted to fly.

I like connecting the abstract to the concrete. There's a tension in that. I believe the reader or listener should be able to enter the poem as a participant. So I try to get past resolving poems.