In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.
Sometimes you can't see yourself clearly until you see yourself through the eyes of others.
Music is essentially useless, as life is.
Speak properly, and in as few words as you can, but always plainly; for the end of speech is not ostentation, but to be understood.
A poem is no place for an idea.
Nothing is as certain as that the vices of leisure are gotten rid of by being busy.
I used to believe that marriage would diminish me, reduce my options. That you had to be someone less to live with someone else when, of course, you have to be someone more.