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“Courage was mine, and I had mystery, Wisdom was mine, and I had mastery: To miss the march of this retreating world Into vain citadels that are not walled.”
Source : Poems (1963 ed.) "Strange Meeting"
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“Experts always know everything but the fine points. When I took my citizenship exams, no one there knew how the White House came to be called the White House.”
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“Writing is hard work, but a lot of fun, too. It allows me to live out some of my fantasies.”
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“There's two kinds of pain in sports: the pain of discipline and the pain of regret.”
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“The spirit of true religion breathes gentleness and affability; it gives a native, unaffected ease to the behavior; it is social, kind, cheerful; far removed from the cloudy and illiberal disposition which clouds the brow, sharpens the temper, and dejects the spirit.”
Source : "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, 1895.
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“From what I understand about Shakespeare - which isn't a lot - there was no copyright law when he was writing. He sampled at will, and it wasn't seen as a bad thing.”
Source : Source: www.billboard.com
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“Happiness is a choice, not a result. Nothing will make you happy until you choose to be happy.”
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“I've also seen that great men are often lonely. This is understandable, because they have built such high standards for themselves that they often feel alone. But that same loneliness is part of their ability to create.”
