“Achievement brings it own anticlimax.”

“All great achievements require time.”

“We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.”

“Don't let the man bring you down.”

“The sisters and brothers that you meet give you the materials which your character uses to build itself. It is said that some people are born great, others achieve it, some have it thrust upon them. In truth, the ways in which your character is built have to do with all three of those. Those around you, those you choose, and those who choose you.”

“The main thing in one's own private world is to try to laugh as much as you cry.”

“Poetry is music for the human voice. Until you actually speak it or someone speaks it, it has not come into its own.”