One never knows what joy one might find amongst the unwanted.
We don't read and write poetry because it's cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race. And the human race is filled with passion. And medicine, law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for.
Socrates learned to dance when he was seventy because he felt that an essential part of himself had been neglected.
Every one of us has in him a continent of undiscovered character. Blessed is he who acts as Columbus to his own soul.
Democracy is two wolves and a lamb deciding what to have for dinner. Liberty is a well-armed lamb.