I have learned this at least by my experiment: that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavours to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.

I am not a teacher but an awakener.

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.

The best way out is always through.

Home is the place where, when you have to go there, They have to take you in.

I don't like to see things on purpose. I like them to soak in. A friend . . . asked me to go to the top of the Empire State Building once, and I told him that he shouldn't treat New York as a sight-it's feeling, an emotional experience. And the same with every place else.

All there is to writing is having ideas. To learn to write is to learn to have ideas.

A poem . . . begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness. . . . It finds the thought and the thought finds the words.