Jealousy is the forerunner of love, and often its awakener.

To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.

A cool breeze stirred my hair at that moment, as the night wind began to come down from the hills, but it felt like a breath from another world.

They fell, but o'er their glorious grave Floats free the banner of the cause they died to save.

No one person can possibly combine all the elements supposed to make up what everyone means by friendship.

In spite of Jean-Jacques and his school, men are not everywhere born free, any more than they are everywhere in chains, unless these be of their own individual making.

Every man carries with him the world in which he must live.

Death is only a translation of life into another language.

What has life given me? The beginning is fire, the end is a heap of ashes, and between the end and the beginning lies all the pain in the world.

Connecting people with people, people with nature, and people with the earth.

Ability and talent never loose the value, because demand for it highly exceeds the supply of it.

There is the view that poetry should improve your life. I think people confuse it with the Salvation Army.

I don't want to wake up with cops surrounding my bed tonight.

I'm not pretending to be somebody who's got really limited craft skills. I just am a person who's got really limited craft skills.

Making the truth public is a form of justice. This is a moral universe and you've got to take account of the fact that truth and lies and goodness and evil are things that matter.

God says, "Please, please help me realize this dream." And some of God's best collaborators are the young, because you dream. You dream God's dream.

Pardon My Sanity In A World Insane

One of life's minor satisfactions is forgetting.

I see a certain order in the universe and math is one way of making it visible.