Treat peopleas if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what theyare capable of being.

The poet gives us his essence, but prose takes the mould of the body and mind entire.

An artist is a cut above the critic, for the artist is writing something which will move the critic. The critic is writing something which will move everybody but the artist

Many a gem of wisdom have gone unsaid, because someone lacked ability to express it.

As longas you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down there to hold himdown, so it means you cannot soar as you otherwise might.

Thereare two dilemmas that rattle the human skull: How do you hang on to someone whowon't stay? And how do you get rid of someone who won't go?

Don't throwout the baby with the bath water.

The onesure way to conciliate a tiger is to allow oneself to be devoured.

A roundegg can be made square according to how you cut it; words would be harshaccording to how you speak them.

Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.

Becausewe focused on the snake, we missed the scorpion.

Knowingthat everything's futile but still fighting, still raging against the dying ofthe light that's what motivates me all the time ... If you hold that sense offutility in your head for too long, it can begin to eat into you. You canstill be aware of it