The greatest impediments to changes in our traditional roles seem to lie not in the visible world of conscious intent, but in the murky realm of the unconscious mind.

A winner is just a loser who tried one more time.

I found Rome a city of bricks and left it a city of marble.

If you want rainbow, you have to deal with the rain.

We write our names in the sand: and then the waves roll in and wash them away.

If we could survive without a wife, citizens of Rome, all of us would do without that nuisance.

Practice, the master of all things.

Young men, listen to an old man to whom old men listened when he was young.

The tales of our exploits will survive as long as the human voice itself.

What is done well is done quickly enough.

Behold them, conquerors of the world, the toga-clad race of Romans!

I predict future happiness for Americans, if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.

Speak softly and carry a big stick

Philip Larkin has a tough honesty and sense of humor that I find irresistible, as a contemporary poet.

Did you write the words, or the lyrics?

I think that things happen for a reason.

If you're not where you want to be, it's because you're not who you need to be right now.

If it doesn't have siamese twins in a jar, it is not a fair.

Only those who leisurely approach that which the masses are busy about can be busy about that which the masses take leisurely.

God exists in eternity. The only point where eternity meets time is in the present. The present is the only time there is.

You cannot slay yourself in me, Nor I to all eternity Destroy my truest self in you.