And me happiest when I compose poems: Love, power, the huzza of battle are something, are much: yet a poem includes them like a pool water and reflection.

Since I no longer expect anything from mankind except madness, meanness, and mendacity; egotism, cowardice, and self-delusion, I have stopped being a misanthrope.

When you argue with your inferiors, you convince them of only one thing: they are as clever as you.

Only the tiniest fracton of mankind want freedom. All the rest want someone to tell them theyare free.

We love in another's soul whatever of ourselves we can deposit in it; the greater the deposit, the greater the love

I have stopped being a misanthrope.

God is indeed dead. He died of self-horror when He saw the creature He had made in His own image.

A Canadian is someone who keeps asking the question, 'What is a Canadian?

Canadians look down on the United States and consider it Hell. They are right to do so. Canada is to the United States what, in Dante's scheme, Limbo is to Hell

I am a genius who has written poems that will survive with the best of Shakespeare, Wordsworth and Keats

A political leader worthy of assassination

And I thought kitty liter was the unlawful practice of discarding small felines along the roadside.

Theatre is not supposed to represent psychology but passions, which is totally different. Its role is to represent the soul's different emotional states, and those of the mind, the world history.

I feel like I know South Africans. I feel like I know our culture.

Many will call me an adventurer - and that I am, only one of a different sort: one of those who risks his skin to prove his truths.

From without, no wonderful effect is wrought within ourselves, unless some interior, responding wonder meets it.

I already love acting and I love actors, so being able to communicate with actors and to bring performances out of them, and to tell a story and aid them, is really exciting for me.

Obviously, the hit singles get the biggest reaction - that's when you can see people really getting excited.

Don't dream of winning, train for it.

I didn't think anyone who had to demand respect ever got it.

Buddhism helps us to overcome our endless ego grasping mind to open up to something so much more spacious and genuinely meaningful.