The only way to do great work is to love what you do.
The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you don't change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion.
The poet is a man who manages to be, in his own lifetime, what all men would like to be after their death.
The most significant threat to liberal democracy comes from within, from the decay of institutions and the loss of trust in them.
When you fail, you learn. When you succeed, you learn even more.
Hard work beats talent when talent doesn't work hard.
