You have to try your best to have peace of mind, and whatever happens you know you did your best

Fighting for me is a chess game. I'm not angry with my opponent. I just want to go in there and win.

Man has been bestowed with all the senses, Alas! What a drama, we are yet to know the art of using it!

If you cannot find a soul mate, at least find a foul mate

A novel is a work of poetry. In order to write it, one must have tranquility of spirit and of impression.

Writing poetry is what I am. I wouldn’t know what else to be.

I regard the death penalty as a savage and immoral institution that undermines the moral and legal foundations of society.

Ridicule can do much, for instance embitter the existence of young talents.

To buy books would be a good thing if we could also buy the time to read them; but the purchase of books is often mistaken for the assimilation and mastering of their contents.

The Earth would die If the sun stopped kissing her.

You have to practice for a long time before you can learn to sound like yourself

American labor will realize that its function is not to increase jobs, but to multiply the wealth and to expand the numbers benefited by the wealth at the swiftest possible rate.