Join the army and see the next world.

Do not go gently into that good night but rage, rage against the dying of the light.

I hold a beast, an angel and a madman within me.

Life always offers you a second chance. is called tomorrow.

Light breaks where no sun shines; Where no sea runs, the waters of the heart; Push in their tides.

When one burns one's bridges, what a very nice fire it makes.

Love is the last light spoken.

An alcoholic is someone you don't like who drinks as much as you do.

It snowed last year too: I made a snowman and my brother knocked it down and I knocked my brother down and then we had tea.

The best craftsmanship always leaves holes and gaps... so that something that is not in the poem can creep, crawl, flash or thunder in.

I do not need any friends. I prefer enemies. They are better company and their feelings towards you are always genuine.

What we sometimes see as annoying, incessant questions from a child may be a plea for recognition. Maybe they do not need an answer as much as attention.

In a perfectly designed world —one with no history— we would not have to suffer everything from hemorrhoids to cancer.

What we actually learn, from any given set of circumstances, determines whether we become increasingly powerless or more powerful.

Don’t strive to be a well-rounded leader. Instead, discover your zone and stay there. Then delegate everything else.

Our poetry emulates the recent progress in military strategy: Our army's strength is the foot soldiers.

We are reminded how short life really is, and how we are just passing through. So, all the people you haven't told you love lately, tell them, and live your days like you mean it.

Women have never been as interesting as they are now. Not at any time on this planet have women been so educated, so interesting, so capable.

A good meditation, even when it is interrupted by occasional nodding, is much more beneficial than many outward religious exercises.

I love the autumn for its sense of melancholy

San Francisco is 49 square miles surrounded by reality.