Weather means more when you have a garden. There's nothing like listening to a shower and thinking how it is soaking in around your green beans.
Once you hear the details of victory, it is hard to distinguish it from a defeat.
In poetry, you must love the words, the ideas and the images and rhythms with all your capacity to love anything at all.
Being in politics is like being a football coach. You have to be smart enough to understand the game, and dumb enough to think it's important.
Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from both sides.
If you keep on saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.
Being tall is an advantage, especially in business. People will always remember you. And if you're in a crowd, you'll always have some clean air to breathe.
Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs.
If you think it's going to rain, it will.
Play not with paradoxes. That caustic which you handle in order to scorch others may happen to sear your own fingers and make them dead to the quality of things.
If you don't like the way the world is, you change it. You have an obligation to change it. You just do it one step at a time.
If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.
Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly and they will show themselves great.
Getting people to like you is merely the other side of liking them.
If you want your children to improve, let them overhear the nice things you say about them to others.
Don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines.
What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step. It is always the same step, but you have to take it.
If you bring forth what is within you, what you bring forth will save you. If you do not bring forth what is within you, what you do not bring forth will destroy you.
To keep your character intact you cannot stoop to filthy acts. It makes it easier to stoop the next time.
Whatever you want in life, other people are going to want it too. Believe in yourself enough to accept the idea that you have an equal right to it.
