How did it get so late so soon? Its night before its afternoon. December is here before its June. My goodness how the time has flewn. How did it get so late so soon?

No one can possibly know what is about to happen: it is happening, each time, for the first time, for the only time.

For Africa to me… is more than a glamorous fact. It is a historical truth. No man can know where he is going unless he knows exactly where he has been and exactly how he arrived at his present place.

Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are rather of the nature of universals, whereas those of history are singulars.

By stopping flying, you don’t only reduce your own carbon footprint but also that sends a signal to other people around you that the climate crisis is a real thing and that helps push a political movement.

Real life? Well, I just hope mine isn’t investigated. They might find that I don’t really exist – that I’m just a hologram.

I pledge allegiance to the Christian flag, and to the Savior, for whose Kingdom it stands, one Savior, crucified, risen, and coming again, with life and liberty for all who believe.

The return of my birthday, if I remember it, fills me with thoughts which it seems to be the general care of humanity to escape.

The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy; their second worst enemy is total efficiency.

What is called genius is the abundance of life and health.

There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.

Time and the hour run through the roughest day.

To a profound pessimist about life, being in danger is not depressing.

The only time you really live fully is from thirty to sixty. The young are slaves to dreams; the old servants of regrets. Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits.

I think a simple rule of business is, if you do the things that are easier first, then you can actually make a lot of progress.

I come from a poor family, I have seen poverty. The poor need respect, and it begins with cleanliness.

When we meet real tragedy in life, we can react in two ways – either by losing hope and falling into self-destructive habits, or by using the challenge to find our inner strength. Thanks to the teachings of Buddha, I have been able to take this second way.

But I think there are a set of experiences that turn a potential writer into a working writer, and then there are places in your life were you start to recognize what you want to do.

There is an ecstasy that marks the summit of life, and beyond which life cannot rise. And such is the paradox of living, this ecstasy comes when one is most alive, and it comes as a complete forgetfulness that one is alive.

Every possession and every happiness is but lent by chance for an uncertain time, and may therefore be demanded back the next hour.

Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them in: but as a rule the purchase of books is mistaken for the appropriation of their contents.

Remembrance and reflection how allied. What thin partitions divides sense from thought.

I never felt settled or calm. You can’t really commit to life when you feel that.

Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it.

For my part, I consider that it will be found much better by all parties to leave the past to history, especially as I propose to write that history myself.

Yes, sir, no, sir, clock in, clock out. Why were you late? Why are you not in today? That’s not how humans are supposed to live.

It seems like we wake up and it’s a race until you get to bed. It gets to you after a while and you think, ‚What the hell am I doing?‘

Throughout my years in business, I discovered something. I would always ask why you do things. The answers that I would invariably get are: ‚Oh, that’s just the way things are done around here.‘ Nobody knows why they do what they do. Nobody thinks very deeply about things in business.

You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies, that is why you must sing and dance, and write poems and suffer and understand, for all that is life.

A poem is a naked person… Some people say that I am a poet.

O‘ What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!

They might not need me; but they might. I’ll let my head be just in sight; a smile as small as mine might be precisely their necessity.

I was at a New Year’s Eve party, and someone asked me how was my year, and I said, ‚I honestly think 2011 was the best year of my entire life,‘ and I actually meant it.

What I can say is that all my characters are searching for their souls, because they are my mirrors. I’m someone who is constantly trying to understand my place in the world, and literature is the best way that I found in order to see myself.

Even a stopped clock is right twice a day.

One always has time enough, if one will apply it well.

The experience of democracy is like the experience of life itself-always changing, infinite in its variety, sometimes turbulent and all the more valuable for having been tested by adversity.

Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.

Everywhere in life, the true question is not what we gain, but what we do.

What inspires me about rap is that it’s written in an almost poetic way. I just think it’s so cool.

I have been on the road and visited numerous places and met people from all over the globe. I can say that it looks nearly the same everywhere I have been: The climate crisis is ignored by people in charge, despite the science being crystal clear.

To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.

Between us and heaven or hell there is only life, which is the frailest thing in the world.

The greatest destroyer of peace is abortion because if a mother can kill her own child, what is left for me to kill you and you to kill me? There is nothing between.

Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns.

Life is short, the art long.

The problem with writing a book in verse is, to be successful, it has to sound like you knocked it off on a rainy Friday afternoon. It has to sound easy. When you can do it, it helps tremendously because it’s a thing that forces kids to read on. You have this unconsummated feeling if you stop.

When you have two busy kids running around the house, returning e-mails is a task, let alone surfing the web.

I don’t think that faith, whatever you’re being faithful about, really can be scientifically explained. And I don’t want to explain this whole life business through truth, science. There’s so much mystery. There’s so much awe.

Lo, what huge heaps of littleness around!

I sometimes wish I were suffering in a good cause, or risking my life for the good of others, instead of just being a gravely endangered patient.

I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We’ve created life in our own image.

I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realises an emotion at the time. It expands later, and thus we don’t have complete emotions about the present, only about the past.

When you work with kids, especially, you want to be ready to turn the camera on at a moment’s notice.

On the outskirts of every agony sits some observant fellow who points.

All the time, I’ve felt that life is a wager and that I probably was getting more out of leading a bohemian existence as a writer than I would have if I didn’t.

Regarding life, the wisest men of all ages have judged alike: it is worthless.

Someone once asked me, ‚How long does it take to do your hair.‘ I said, ‚I don’t know, I’m never there.‘

If a man or woman is born ten years sooner or later, their whole aspect and performance shall be different.

Life becomes harder for us when we live for others, but it also becomes richer and happier.

Acting is just a way of making a living, the family is life.