He who defines his conduct by ethics imprisons his song-bird in a cage.
The optimist sees the rose and not its thorns; the pessimist stares at the thorns, oblivious to the rose.
To love life through our labor is to be intimate with life's inmost secrets.
My proof convinces the ignorant, and the wise man's proof convinces me. But he whose reasoning falls between wisdom and ignorance, I neither can convince him, nor can he convince me.
Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary.
If we were to all sit in a circle and confess our sins, we would laugh at each other for lack of originality.