If you want it you must obtain it by great labor.

Sometimes things become possible if we want them bad enough.

I said to my soul, be still and wait without hope, for hope would be hope for the wrong thing; wait without love, for love would be love of the wrong thing; there is yet faith, but the faith and the love are all in the waiting. Wait without thought, for you are not ready for thought: So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing.

At the violet hour, when the eyes and back Turn upward from the desk, when the human engine waits Like a taxi throbbing waiting I Tiresias, though blind, throbbing between two lives.

Talent imitates, but genius steals.

We read many books, because we cannot know enough people.

Accident is design / And design is accident / In a cloud of unknowing.