Tough times never last. Tough people do
The grass is not, in fact, always greener on the other side of the fence. Fences have nothing to do with it. The grass is greenest where it is watered. When crossing over fences, carry water with you and tend the grass wherever you may be.
All I really need to know about how to live and what to do and how to be I learned in kindergarten. Remember the Dick-and-Jane books and the first word you learned--the biggest word of all--look.
When things are at their blackest, I say to myself, 'Cheer up, things could be worse.' And sure enough, they get worse.
Share everything. Don't take things that aren't yours. Put things back where you found them.
Sticks and stones will break our bones, but words will break our hearts...
If you feel that you have boy feet planted on the ground, then the university has failed you.
There is no money in poetry, but then there is no poetry in money either.
To say she was my girlfriend was absurd: no one the wrong side of thirty has a girlfriend… I suppose I ought to have realize it’s ominous that forty thousand years of human language had failed to produce a word for our relationship.
The remarkable thing about Shakespeare is that he really is very good, in spite of all the people who say he is very good.