“If there ever comes a time when the women of the world come together purely and simply for the benefit of mankind, it will be a force such as the world has never known.”

Not deep the poet sees, but wide.

The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.

Tis not to see the world As from a height, with rapt prophetic eyes, And heart profoundly stirred; And weep, and feel the fullness of the past, The years that are not more.

And long we try in vain to speak and act Our hidden self, and what we say and do Is eloquent, is well — but ’tis not true!

Sanity — that is the great virtue of the ancient literature; the want of that is the great defect of the modern, in spite of its variety and power.

Coleridge: poet and philosopher wrecked in a mist of opium.

But there remains the question: what righteousness really is. The method and secret and sweet reasonableness of Jesus.

For poetry the idea is everything; the rest is a world of illusion.

Have something to say, and say it as clearly as you can. That is the only secret.

And that sweet city with her dreaming spires, She needs not June for beauty’s heightening.

Years hence, perhaps, may dawn an age, More fortunate, alas! than we, Which without hardness will be sage, And gay without frivolity.

The sophist sneers: Fool, take Thy pleasure, right or wrong! The pious wail: Forsake A world these sophists throng! Be neither saint nor sophist-led, but be a man.

Once read thy own breast right, And thou hast done with fears.

For the creation of a masterwork of literature two powers must concur, the power of the man and the power of the moment, and the man is not enough without the moment.

The brave, impetuous heart yields everywhere to the subtle, contriving head.

They… who await. No gifts from Chance, have conquered Fate.

Sometimes living is easy and sometimes you lie awake at night and ask your tired heart please survive one more day.

Everything happens in real-time, so make decisions that are easy to live with.

If only it was as easy to banish hunger by rubbing the belly as it is to masturbate.

When it’s too easy to get money, then you get a lot of noise mixed in with the real innovation and entrepreneurship.

Solving big problems is easier than solving little problems.

It makes life so much easier when you can just say ‘I’m human’ at the end of the day.”

I am always forgiving too easily as if I have forgotten the way it hurts.

Its easier to say love doesn’t come to you rather than explaining why you push it away.