All is mine but nothing owned, nothing owned for memory, and mine only while I look.

A girl should be two things: classy and fabulous.

Those who restrain desire do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained.

To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul.

A person preaches well that lives well.

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

Parents are usually more careful to bestow knowledge on their children rather than virtue, the art of speaking well rather than doing well; but their manners should be of the greatest concern.

How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.

An intense anticipation itself transforms possibility into reality; our desires being often but precursors of the things which we are capable of performing.

At the bottom of enmity between strangers lies indifference.

Charity ... is the opium of the privileged.

The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can't be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.

The true test of a man's character is what he does when no one is watching.

You cant have a plan for your day, til you have a plan for your life.

The greatness of a man is not in how much wealth he acquires, but in his integrity and his ability to affect those around him positively.

The promise given was a necessity of the past: the word broken is a necessity of the present.

When the student is ready, the teacher will appear.

Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have poisoned the fountain.

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

No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.

Let us try to teach generosity and altruism, because we are born selfish.