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

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.

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

Most celebrated men live in a condition of prostitution.

How light the raindrop's contents are

Magic will find those with pure hearts, even when all seems lost.

Well, I think the U.S. has been careful not to go too far in attacking Iran's allies, in particular in attacking Hezbollah forces in Syria, which have been propping up the regime of Bashar al-Assad.

If you can eliminate the yelling and listen to the message, there's a great message there.

She lies about her age and weight and is slightly older than Rocket. But they've been a couple for eight years, longer than most in Hollywood.

The past is something for you to learn from and the future is something that you hope is going to happen, but I'm always speaking to my actual fans in present tense.

Kennedy was haunted by the Bay of Pigs invasion but carried the country through the Cuban Missile Crisis. He later increased the number of U.S. military advisers to South Vietnam to more than 16,000.

To hope is to give yourself to the future - and that commitment to the future is what makes the present inhabitable.

Everything has to be done to build some sort of international democracy. We've seen only the tiniest beginnings of that.

I like to find things in real life that let me get involved. Or if you need a break, go hang out with your family.