How ruthless and vile and hard and right the young are.

Next, suddenly, lightning suddenly, while I am still a child, a branch is lopped from my being, and a portion of my childhood ends forever. I see what poets are.

At this point, I realize: He is making a monster of me.

Take care to keep open house : Because in this way some have had angels as their guests, without being conscious of it ". Hebrews 13:2.

If you are loved, that is all you need.

Our true wisdom is to embrace with meek docility, and without reservation, whatever the holy scriptures have delivered.

Men become old but they never become good.

To seem natural rather than to be natural.

I've got you deep in the heart of me.

It's a vast, lonely, forbidding expanse of nothing rather like clouds and clouds of pumice stone. And it certainly does not appear to be a very inviting place to live or work.

Do I shout, belittle or swear? No. I have sufficient confidence within myself to control my environment just by my presence, just by working hard and leading from the front.

If you're not learning, you're wasting your time.