Sometimes when we have to speak suddenly we come closer to the truth than when we have time to think.

Life is not easy and comfortable, with nothing ever going wrong as long as you buy the right product. It's not true that if you have the right insurance everything is going to be fine. That's not what it's really like. Terrible things happen. And those are the things we learn from.

If we are not willing to fail we will never accomplish anything. All creative acts involve the risk of failure.

I saw Eternity the other night, Like a great ring of pure and endless light, All calm, as it was bright, And round beneath it, Time, in hours, days, years, Driven by the spheres, Like a vast shadow moved, in which the world And all her train were hurled.

To share poetry is one of the most intimate acts of friendship possible.

We human beings grow through our failures, not our virtues.

You've got to accept the fact that you are basically not teaching a subject, you are teaching children