To be a good loser is to learn how to win.

A book is never a masterpiece: it becomes one. Genius is the talent of a dead man.

Strange things blow in through my window on the wings of the night wind and I don't worry about my destiny.

Poetry is a series of explanations of life, fading off into horizons too swift for explanations.

Give me hunger, pain and want, Shut me out with shame and failure From your doors of gold and fame, Give me your shabbiest, weariest hunger! But leave me a little love.

And those who say, "I'll try anything once," often try nothing twice, three times, arriving late at the gate of dreams worth dying for.

I stayed away from mathematics not so much because I knew it would be hard work as because of the amount of time I knew it would take, hours spent in a field where I was not a natural.