Suffering: 'Suffering is one of life's great teachers.'

Progress: 'Speak to protect the ideals of goodness, and act to make them real in the world. The first proves a consummate mind, the second a valorous heart. No…

Forgiveness: 'The ability to forgive is one of man's greatest achievements.'

Knowledge: 'Remember that the greatest fool in the world may ask more than the wisest man can answer.'

He [Aeschylus] was, first and last, the born fighter, to whom the consciousness of being matched against a great adversary suffices and who can dispense with s…

My father taught me that one of the most important abilities in life is to be able to take the pain and persevere, and for years this lesson had served me well.

A good poet is someone who manages, in a lifetime of standing out in thunderstorms, to be struck by lightning five or six times; a dozen or two dozen times and…