There's real poetry in the real world. Science is the poetry of reality

Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays.

With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.

The death of a beautiful woman, is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world.

I am dying from the treatment of too many physicians.

The word 'good' has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man.

I want to sing like the birds sing, not worrying about who hears or what they think.

There's no such thing as perfect writing, just like there's no such thing as perfect despair.

No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.

Society is now one polished horde, Formed of two mighty tribes, The Bores and the Bored.

Dare to risk public criticism.

When we are no longer able to change a situation - we are challenged to change ourselves.

I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.

We princes are set as it were upon stages in the sight and view of the world.

There is no real ending. It's just the place where you stop the story.

Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society.

There's nothing in the world so demoralizing as money.

Even if you are divine, you don't disdain male consorts.

Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody, I think that is a much greater hunger, a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat.

Quote me as saying I was mis-quoted.

Remember upon the conduct of each depends the fate of all.