I always liked the magic of poetry but now I'm just starting to see behind the curtain of even the best poets, how they've used, tried and tested craft to create the illusion. Wonderful feeling of exhilaration to finally be there.

When we replace a sense of service and gratitude with a sense of entitlement and expectation, we quickly see the demise of our relationships, society, and economy.

Steve Maraboli

Half the things that people do not succeed in are through fear of making the attempt.

James Northcote

Sufficient to each day are the duties to be done and the trials to be endured. God never built a Christian strong enough to carry today's duties and tomorrow's anxieties piled on the top of them.

Theodore L. Cuyler

When you have got an elephant by the hind leg, and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run.

Abraham Lincoln

Nights without work I spent with whisky and books.

Haruki Murakami

One person's constant is another person's variable.

Susan Gerhart

I think it's a mistake to ever look for hope outside of one's self.

Arthur Miller

However, if a poem can be reduced to a prose sentence, there can't be much to it.

James Schuyler

All fair in love and war.

Francis Edward Smedley

In Italy, I had an Afro, and a lot of the kids came up and felt my hair. It really was funny. I wish I had understood Italian.

Sugar Ray Leonard

I very much enjoyed my career in science. I didn't leave science because I was disillusioned, but felt I'd done my bit for it after about twenty-five years.

John Polkinghorne

All paid employments... absorb and degrade the mind.

Aristotle