Yet have I oft been beaten in the field, And sometimes hurt, " said I, "but scorn'd to yield." He smiled and said: "Alas! thou dost not see, My son, how great a flame's prepared for thee.

I freeze and burn, love is bitter and sweet, my sighs are tempests and my tears are floods, I am in ecstasy and agony, I am possessed by memories of her and I am in exile from myself.

Learning is my sole delight.

Maybe we're stuck with who we are.

Your children's genes reflect only their potential, not their destiny. It is up to you to provide the environment that allows them to develop to their highest potential.

I don't know any form of art or entertainment that can affect people the way movies can. I know it sounds ridiculous, but they can change your world. They can change your views.

Thoughts are the gun, words are the bullets, deeds are the target, the bulls-eye is heaven.

Now, the process of writing poetry is very messy. Not systematic, never quite the same

the struggle for the right to become politicians in itself made women into politicians.

If we keep everything in balance, we are in harmony with ourselves and are at peace.

You do not characterize by telling the reader about the character. You do it by showing the character thinking, speaking and acting in a characteristic way. You simply show it and shut up.

I consider myself perfectly normal, and I don't know of any part of my life that would be so unusual as to interest the idly curious.

We do a lot of things for reasons besides profit motive. We want to leave the world better than we found it.