Rain clouds come floating in, not to muddy my days ahead, but to make me calm, happy and hopeful.
Rain clouds come floating in, not to muddy my days ahead, but to make me calm, happy and hopeful.
We don't read and write poetry because it's cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race. And the human race is filled with passion. And medicine, law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for.
Life is like a 1,000 page book. You want to quit halfway through, but then you realise you have a lot left to look forward to.
Socrates learned to dance when he was seventy because he felt that an essential part of himself had been neglected.
On Hallowe’en the thing you must do is pretend that nothing can frighten you. And if somethin’ scares you and you want to run, just let on like it’s Hallowe’en fun.
A man’s value depends upon his courage and resolution, his veracity depends upon his traits of nobility and self respect and his chastity depends upon his sense of honour.