To give yourself away keep yourself still, And you must live drawn by your own sweet skill.

Summer's lease hath all too short a date.

All days are nights to see till I see thee, And nights bright days when dreams do show thee me.

If thou dost seek to have what thou dost hide, By self-example mayst thou be denied.

For I have sworn thee fair, and thought thee bright, Who art as black as hell, as dark as night.

Then of thy beauty do I question make, That thou among the wastes of time must go, Since sweets and beauties do themselves forsake, And die as fast as they see others grow.

Thou of thyself thy sweet self dost deceive.

Be not self-willed, for thou art much too fairTo be death’s conquest and make worms thine heir.

His beauty shall in these black lines be seen, and they shall live, and he in them still green.

O! how shall summer's honey breath hold out, / Against the wrackful siege of battering days?

When you feel that life has nothing to offer you, then offer your greatness for the humanity. You will have nothing to lose but you will win and change the humanity.

Poetry, for me, is the answer to, 'How does one stay sane when private lives are being ransacked by public events?' It's something that hangs over your head all the time.

I wish I had the power to flip my reality upside down like an hourglass, and that life wasn't a finite affair, but rather a perpetually recurring passage through a hole in time.

It is some compensation for great evils, that they enforce great lessons.

Make big plans; aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will not die.

We've got the best product pipeline that I've seen in my 25 years at Apple.

No one controls your destiny. Even at the very worst - there is always choice.

Show me a congenital eavesdropper with the instincts of a Peeping Tom and I will show you the making of a dramatist.

I deal with pressure. I have a tendency to probably be at my best under pressure.

He tried to remember how this happened – how she went from someone he’d never met to the only one who mattered.