R.B. Thomas

Somewhere inside all of us is the power to change the world.

I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it.

There is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness, and truth.

Those who cannot tell what they desire or expect, still sigh and struggle with indefinite thoughts and vast wishes.

Croesus said to Cambyses; That peace was better than war; because in peace the sons did bury their fathers, but in wars the fathers did bury their sons.

People have a hard time letting go of their suffering. They prefer suffering that is familiar to the unknown.

Who ever is out of patience is out of possession of their soul.

Looking? Found someone you have, eh?

Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same.

Punishment closely follows guilt as its companion.

Life isn’t as serious as the mind makes it out to be.

You sold me a dream and it shattered. I didn’t know how to put it back together again. So instead, I’m lovingly gluing those fragments anew with seams of gold, creating a vibrant new dream, rendering the broken strong and more than ever, breathtakingly beautiful.

It is no great art to say something briefly when, like Tacitus, one has something to say; when one has nothing to say, however, and none the less writes a whole book and makes truth into a liar – that I call an achievement.

Here undoubtedly lies the chief poetic energy: -in the force of imagination that pierces or exalts the solid fact, instead of floating among cloud-pictures.

You should read history and look at ostracism, persecution, martyrdom, and that kind of thing. They always happen to the best men, you know.