No poet can know what his poem is going to be like until he has written it.
-W. H. Auden
I don't want to achieve immortality through my work; I want to achieve immortality through not dying.
-Woody Allen
The moment I have realized God sitting in the temple of every human body, the moment I stand in reverence before every human being and see God in him - that moment I am free from bondage, everything that binds vanishes, and I am free.
-Swami Vivekananda
Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life; not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens.
Patriot: the person who can holler the loudest without knowing what he is hollering about.
-Mark Twain
The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experiences.
-Eleanor Roosevelt