When you have once taken up a responsibility, you must see it through.

Never be afraid of the moments--thus sings the voice of the everlasting.

I have observed, on board a steamer, how men and women easily give way to their instinct for flirtation, because water has the power of washing away our sense of responsibility, and those who on land resemble the oak in their firmness behave like floating seaweed when on the sea.

Those who in this world have the courage to try and solve in their own lives new problems of life, are the ones who raise society to greatness.

[The poets' role is that of] capturing on their instruments the secret stir of life in the air and giving it voice in the music of prophecy

If I can't make it through one door, I'll go through another door- or i'll make a door. Something terrific will come no matter how dark the present.

God, the Great Giver, can open the whole universe to our gaze in the narrow space of a single land.