“I’m not only lazy myself but I inspire laziness in others”

“Don’t be so eager to arrive at your destination. Take the long way. Enjoy the ride, the view. Get a little lost, make new friends and a few mistakes along the way.”

“You have filled my life with the warmth of your love. My heart, once frozen with betrayal, now beats only for you.”

“One of poetry’s great effects, through its emphasis upon feeling, association, music and image — things we recognize and respond to even before we understand why — is to guide us toward the part of ourselves so deeply buried that it borders upon the collective.”Staying Human: Poetry in the Age of Technology”

“We live in a world when men treat art as if it were meant to be a form of autobiography. We have lost the abstract sense of beauty.”

“Your best will never be good enough, to the ones constantly searching for your flaws. But for you to be the best, you need to ignore your flaws and do what is the best.”

“To live with Faith, eliminate Fear. Only one can exist in our Life at any point of time.”

“Look at a stonecutter hitting at the rock. Nothing happens at first, but after many strikes, the rock eventually cracks. In Life, don’t Doubt. Keep at it and it will happen.”

“You Learn when you Fall”

“I felt that blank incapability of invention which is the greatest misery of authorship, when dull Nothing replies to our anxious invocations. “Have you thought of a story?” I was asked every morning, and each morning I was forced to reply with a mortifying negative”

“The business would do good to understand that success or failure is not final in Data Science. For this reason, the business should develop a persistent spirit.”

“Instructors could teach the basic techniques and methods, but a mastery of mechanical knowledge could never make a person an artist. No one could teach creativity or invention. A spark needed to come from within. It must be something unique, something discovered by the individual, a leap of understanding, a burst of insight, the combining of common elements in an unexpected way.”

“Like it or not, we either add to the darkness of indifference and out-and-out evil which surround us or we light a candle to see by.We can surely no longer pretend that our children are growing up into a peaceful, secure, and civilized world. We’ve come to the point where it’s irresponsible to try to protect them from the irrational world they will have to live in when they grow up…. Our responsibility to them is not to pretend that if we don’t look, evil will go away, but to give them weapons against it.”

“Everyone is in a race of beingbetter than others, that’s where we failed… The actual race should be in making the version of ourselves better than yesterday…”

“The Gay, the Straight, the Preacher,The privileged, the homeless, the Teacher.They all hearThe speaking of the Tree.They hear the first and last of every TreeSpeak to humankind today. Come to me, here beside the River.Plant yourself beside the River.”