Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.

Teachers who educated children deserved more honour than parents who merely gave them birth; for bare life is furnished by the one, the other ensures a good life.

Good habits formed at youth make all the difference.

Youth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope.

We needed something to express our joy, our beauty, our power. And the rainbow did that.

Every device there is in language is there to be used, if you will. Poets have got to enjoy themselves sometimes, and the twistings and convolutions of words, the inventions and contrivances, are all part of the joy that is part of the painful, voluntary work.

My music is about a joyful experience. I've learned that if you can affect other people, you should.

If I get into something, I get into it for the pure joy of it.