We want to be poets of our life first of all in the smallest most everyday matters.

The same stream of life that runs through the world runs through my veins night and day.

Just as treasures are uncovered from the earth, so virtue appears from good deeds, and wisdom appears from a pure and peaceful mind. To walk safely through the maze of human life, one needs the light of wisdom and the guidance of virtue.

In childhood be modest, in youth temperate, in adulthood just, and in old age prudent.

If you're sitting around waiting on somebody to save you, to fix you, to even help you, you are wasting your time because only you have the power to take responsibility to move your life forward.

If I had my life to live over again, I would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen to some music at least once a week.