Never forget that your role as a leader is to be a steward for future generations.
I like all my children, even the squat and ugly ones.
Nothing in the universe can travel at the speed of light, they say, forgetful of the shadow's speed.
A teacher is a person who never says anything once.
When Robert Frost was alive, I was known as the other new England poet, which is to be barely known at all.
This Constitutional Republic called America is an historic aberration. Any honest student of history will note that the prevailing socio-economic system is feudalism, where a tiny minority control the vast majority of wealth, power, and resources. In doing so, they have absolute control over the 99% of the population. Power equals control.
Write what you know. That should leave you with a lot of free time.
There's no road map on how to raise a family: it's always an enormous negotiation.
Make your life a masterpiece; imagine no limitations on what you can be, have or do
In the sacred precinct of that dwelling where the despotic woman wields the sceptre of fierce neatness, one treads as if he carried his life in his hands.
And the council doesn’t recognize any kind of temporary insanity defense. Which was a real shame, because most of the councilmen had considered me crazy for most of my life.