The true Poet is all-knowing; he is an actual world in miniature.

A hero is one who knows how to hang on one minute longer.

Life must not be a novel that is given to us, but one that is made by us.

Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.

Where are we really going? Always home.

Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.

There is but one temple in the universe, and that is the body of man.

The mysterious path goes inward. It is in us, and not anywhere else, where the eternity of the worlds, the past and the future are found.

In cheerful souls there is no wit. Wit shows a disturbance of the equipoise.

When you understand how to love one thing, then you also understand how to love everything.

Nature is an aeolian harp, a musical instrument whose tones are the re-echo of higher strings within us.

Convert your time into useful assets

In character-building and in living the Christian life, concentration is important. The [person] who has a general interest in everything usually isn’t too good at anything.

Accept who are you and your uniqueness. Define your choices and believes.

We will die a slow death over the next two years as this oil creeps ashore.

My inspiration can come from anything - films, the street, paparazzi pictures.

All men are homosexual, some turn straight. It must be very odd to be a straight man because your sexuality is hopelessly defensive. It's like an ideal of racial purity.

Female murderers get sheaves of offers of marriage.

There's no Chanel collection without black. (It) will never exist. Who can live without some black clothes.

The universe may be as great as they say. But it wouldn't be missed if it didn't exist.

Great success always comes at the risk of enormous failure.