“Life must be aromatic. There must be scent, somehow there must be some.”

Good health is a duty to yourself, to your contemporaries, to your inheritors, to the progress of the world.

I like the concentration, the crush; I like working with language, as others like working with clay, or notes.

Even if you are not ready for day it cannot always be night.

Do not desire to fit in. Desire to oblige yourselves to lead.

When white and black meet today, sometimes there is a ready understanding that there has been an encounter between two human beings. But often there is only, or chiefly, an awareness that Two Colors are in the room.

It is brave to be involved. To be not fearful to be unresolved.

When I start writing a poem, I don’t think about models or about what anybody else in the world has done.

To be in love Is to touch things with a lighter hand. In yourself you stretch, you are well.

I swear to keep the dead upon my mind, / Disdain for all time to be overglad.

Beware the easy griefs / that fool and fuel nothing.

Writing is a delicious agony.

Truth-tellers are not always palatable. There is a preference for candy bars.

Very early in life I became fascinated with the wonders language can achieve. And I began playing with words.

The music is in minors.

No man can give me any word but Wait.

We don’t ask a flower any special reason for its existence. We just look at it and are able to accept it as being something different from ourselves.

Life, people and customers will never give you more than you ask for. Asking is a good habit. Ask often, Ask more.

If you realize that a lot of people are fake in your life, make no time to declutter yourself.

Great businesses come from great leadership, great leadership comes from great flexibility and great flexibility comes from great control. great control will give you a great life. 

Women have the ability to do whatever they want in life and are not less than a man.

Life doesn’t allow you to feel comfortable when you are limiting yourself.

Life has its own lesson on our foolishness.

You make my life meaningful just by being in it.

Not doing more doesn’t make you any less.