If you forget you have to struggle for improvement you go backward.

He heapeth up riches and knoweth not who shall gather them.

There is but one freedom, to put oneself right with death. After that everything is possible.

Every relationship between two individuals or two groups will be characterized by the ratio of secrecy that is involved in it.

Even as a young child, I was a lover of books and of the spaces in which, as indeed in a sacred temple, books might safely reside.

My boxing inspiration is to one day become world champion, to go as far as I can go and see where it takes me.

When something is bothering me, I write a song that tells my feelings.

each new poem is partly propelled by the formal energies of all the poems that have preceded it in the history of literature.

God is on your side. We already at the finish line. Anything you put your mind to, anything you want to accomplish ,you put your faith in God's hands you can do it.

I am no metaphysician, no philosopher, nay, no saint. But I am poor and I love the poor. I see what they call the poor of this country and how many there are who feel for them!

O'er her warm cheek, and rising bosom, move The bloom of young Desire and purple light of love.