A ruddy drop of manly blood The surging sea outweighs; The world uncertain comes and goes, The lover rooted stays.

Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.

A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.

When a man is pushed, tormented, defeated, he has a chance to learn something.

Beauty without expression tires.

Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.

Life Is a Journey, Not a Destination.

Every sunset brings the promise of a new dawn

To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.

The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.

It is time for you to choose, the rope or the spike!

The water shines only by the sun. And it is you who are my sun.

The true purpose of education is to teach a man to carry himself triumphant to the sunset.

So how can a poet-an intelligent, serious poet-write mystical verse now? The poetry of Adam Zagajewski provides the beginning of an answer to this question.

It was truly revealing. The strength of the intervention, the intensity of colors and the happiness of this work, has never left me.

The fear of your own solitude, of its vast surface and its infinity… Remorse is the voice of solitude. And what does this whispering voice say? Everything in us that is not human anymore.

Respect a man, he will do the more.

Something about her suggested that her leisure activities included wrestling large woodland animals and banging bricks together.

The core of the concept of a bribe is an inducement improperly influencing the performance of a public function meant to be gratuitously exercised.