I loved words. I love to sing them and speak them and even now, I must admit, I have fallen into the joy of writing them.
Human love has little regard for the truth. It makes the truth relative, since nothing, not even the truth, must come between it and the beloved person.
We have for a long time neglected our children. They are our richest treasure. We must give them time, attention and the love of our pure, unselfish hearts.
To get to be somebody who gets to love what they do for a living, that's so rare, and so there must be some kind of price you have to pay.
But the disparaging of those we love always alienates us from them to some extent. We must not touch our idols; the gilt comes off in our hands.
Criticism starts - it has to start - with a real passion for reading. It can come in adolescence, even in your twenties, but you must fall in love with poems.
Love or hatred must constantly increase between two persons who are always together; every moment fresh reasons are found for loving or hating better.
One thing a lyricist must learn is not to fall in love with his own lines. Once you learn that, you can walk away from the lyric and look at it with a reasonable degree of objectivity.
If ever I feel I might be able to tackle it, I'd love to try holding a spear or something in the theater, or opening a door, or anything, just to try it, you know, because it must be some marvelous magic thing.
For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice - no paper currency, no promises to pay, but the gold of real service.
Here I am, where I ought to be. A writer must have a place where he or she feels this, a place to love and be irritated with.
I often imagine that the longer he studies English literature the more the Japanese student must be astonished at the extraordinary predominance given to the passion of love both in fiction and in poetry.
You must refuse to entertain or shelter in your mind, any thought or belief that goes against your happiness and success in life.
Into each dance must be packed the panic and ecstasy of her last moment of life, for underneath was death.
Devil must really hate me a lot because I consistently refuse to give him an opportunity to win over my soul.
They say that 'life is too short,' but I must say that if you live each day happily and productively, it is quite long enough.
We were all born with the potential to win massively, but you must still play your cards right in order to inevitably solidify it.
Life is always sweet on the positive lane, but you must give it a try and a try and a try for however long it would take to find out.
Your time to shine is definitely coming, but you must not allow your past failures and disappointments to steal it from you.
In order for your dream to come into manifestation, you must first repeatedly envision its possibility in your mental imagination.
There is always something good about your day. Therefore, you must make it your daily responsibility to focus on your positive experiences.
