Small aim is a crime; have great aim.

The past is a great place and I don't want to erase it or to regret it, but I don't want to be its prisoner either.

The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom... in a clarification of life - not necessarily a great clarification, such as sects and cults are founded on, but in a momentary stay against confusion.

Fools multiply when wise men are silent.

All great events hang by a single thread. The clever man takes advantage of everything, neglects nothing that may give him some added opportunity; the less clever man, by neglecting one thing, sometimes misses everything.

Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship.