Intelligence recognizes what has happened. Genius recognizes what will happen.

You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.

Poetry lies its way to the truth.

A good question is never answered. It is not a bolt to be tightened into place but a seed to be planted and to bear more seed toward the hope of greening the landscape of idea.

Wherever art appears, life disappears.

It may be that the deep necessity of art is the examination of self-deception.

Art is much less important than life, but what a poor life without it.

Walk on a rainbow trail; walk on a trail of song, and all about you will be beauty. There is a way out of every dark mist, over a rainbow trail.

Men can starve from a lack of self-realization as much as they can from a lack of bread.

The artist must bow to the monster of his own imagination.

We are not permitted to choose the frame of our destiny. But what we put into it is ours.

Time always seems long to the child who is waiting - for Christmas, for next summer, for becoming a grownup: long also when he surrenders his whole soul to each moment of a happy day.

Forgiveness is the answer to the child's dream of a miracle by which what is broken is made whole again, what is soiled is made clean again.

'Freedom from fear' could be said to sum up the whole philosophy of human rights.

Never, for the sake of peace and quiet, deny your own experience or convictions.

Your body must become familiar with its death - in all its possible forms and degrees - as a self-evident, imminent, and emotionally neutral step on the way towards the goal you have found worthy of your life.

Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for.

Life only demands from you the strength that you possess. Only one feat is possible; not to run away.

The breaking wave and the muscle as it contracts obey the same law. Delicate line gathers the body's total strength in a bold balance. Shall my soul meet so severe a curve, journeying on its way to form?

Never measure the height of a mountain until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was.

The pursuit of peace and progress cannot end in a few years in either victory or defeat. The pursuit of peace and progress, with its trials and its errors, its successes and its setbacks, can never be relaxed and never abandoned.

Never for the sake of peace and quiet deny your convictions.

Be nice to people on your way up because you'll meet them on your way down.

It is not in life, but in art that self-fulfillment is to be found.

Art is science made clear.

Failure has gone to his head.

Those who welcome death have only tried it from the ears up.

To profit from good advice requires more wisdom than to give it.

The difference between chirping out of turn and a faux pas depends on what kind of a bar you're in.

All anger is not sinful, because some degree of it, and on some occasions, is inevitable. But it becomes sinful and contradicts the rule of Scripture when it is conceived upon slight and inadequate provocation, and when it continues long.

Gambling: The sure way of getting nothing for something.

Don't talk about yourself; it will be done when you leave.

I think; therefore I am.

It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.

Each problem that I solved became a rule, which served afterwards to solve other problems.

I am accustomed to sleep and in my dreams to imagine the same things that lunatics imagine when awake.

A state is better governed which has few laws, and those laws strictly observed.

The two operations of our understanding, intuition and deduction, on which alone we have said we must rely in the acquisition of knowledge.

The senses deceive from time to time, and it is prudent never to trust wholly those who have deceived us even once.

Perfect numbers like perfect men are very rare.

If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.

I hope that posterity will judge me kindly, not only as to the things which I have explained, but also to those which I have intentionally omitted so as to leave to others the pleasure of discovery.

You can't stay in your corner of the forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes.

To the uneducated, an A is just three sticks.

Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.

Organizing is what you do before you do something, so that when you do it, it is not all mixed up.

If you don't know where you are going, you might wind up someplace else.

Love is the most important thing in the world, but baseball is pretty good, too.

The future ain't what it used to be.

You can observe a lot by watching.