What signifies the ladder, provided one rise and attain the end?

With everyone born human, a poet - an artist - is born, who dies young and who is survived by an adult.

Nature wants us to enjoy life to the full and die without giving it a second thought; Christianity wants the opposite.

Each man must look to himself to teach him the meaning of life. It is not something discovered: it is something molded.

There are people whose clocks stop at a certain point in their lives.

Nothing is more painful to me than the disdain with which people treat second-rate authors, as if there were room only for the first-raters.

I have always thought that if we began for one moment to say what we thought, society would collapse.

Despair itself if it goes on long enough, can become a kind of sanctuary in which one settles down and feels at ease.

If you want to succeed, limit yourself.

In most men there exists a poet who died young, whom the man survived.

Since it is necessary to have enemies, let us endeavour to have those who do us honour.

Monsters were wild. Monsters were strong. Monsters were fierce and free.If I was monstrous...perhaps it wasn't such a bad thing.

Much may be made of a Scotchman if he be caught young.

Part of me is drawn to the nature of sadness because I think life is sad, and sadness is not something that should be avoided or denied. It's a fact of life, like contradictions are.

Environmentalists have a very conflicted relationship with their cars.

It is not merely for to-day, but for all time to come that we should perpetuate for our children's children this great and free government, which we have enjoyed all our lives.

You don't have to be someone special to achieve something amazing. You've just got to have a dream, believe in it and work hard.

Sisters are a shield against life's cruel adversity.

Sometimes you're not in the best environment. Sometimes you're not speaking the same language and it's not a good place to work. It's a lot to give, actually. And for not a lot of money.

It is fatal to know too much at the outcome: boredom comes as quickly to the traveler who knows his route as to the novelist who is over certain of his plot.

Arsenal's never-improving injury list increasingly attracts curiosity rather than sympathy.