As things are, and as fundamentally they must always be, poetry is not a career, but a mug's game. No honest poet can ever feel quite sure of the permanent value of what he has written: He may have wasted his time and messed up his life for nothing.

You can't live your life blaming your failures on your parents and what they did or didn't do for you. You're dealt the cards that you're dealt. I realised it was a waste of time to be angry at my parents and feel sorry for myself.

Leadership to me means duty, honor, country. It means character, and it means listening from time to time.

You are your greatest asset. Put your time, effort and money into training, grooming, and encouraging your greatest asset.

Some people ask the secret of our long marriage. We take time to go to a restaurant two times a week. A little candlelight, dinner, soft music and dancing. She goes Tuesdays, I go Fridays.

If you believe in your heart that you are right, you must fight with all your might to do it your way. Only dead fish swim with the stream all the time.

There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time as come.

Greater than the tread of mighty armies is an idea whose time has come.

Religion is about turning untested belief into unshakable truth through the power of institutions and the passage of time.

Yet, taught by time, my heart has learned to glow for other's good, and melt at other's woe.