What is not worth understanding is not knowing.

Fools may have the greatest repository of knowledge but will never attain Wisdom.

It is only by persistent focus on your dreams you will pull all the divine forces for the passion of fulfilled dream.

Earlier this year, I'd told a mother at school I'd been married fifteen year. She asked, "What's the secret to a long marriage?" I thought for a second, then answered, "Staying married.

... a man sitting still is alone, often, with the memory of all he doesn't have. And what he does have can look very much like nothing.

Learn to focus on the light ahead instead of dwelling on the darkness that's already behind you.

Come! let us take a moment's shelter under some roof Look! there - before you, a little way off There is an empty space Between truth and falsehood.

Drunken with what? With wine, with poetry, or with virtue, as you will. But be drunken.

When you stood between somebody you loved and death, it was hard to be awake and it was hard to sleep.

I must say, I hate money. But it's the lack of it I hate most.

Remember this. Bear Bryant retired at age 69, and he died 28 days after he stopped coaching. If you don't have something, and a purpose in your life, you're gonna die.

It might be an idea for all literary critics to read the books they analyse aloud - it certainly helps to fix them in the mind, while providing a readymade seminar with your audience.