Voltaire

What a heavy burden is a name that has become too famous.

By appreciation, we make excellence in others our own property.

Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.

When large numbers of men are unable to find work, unemployment results.

Knowing some Greek helped defuse forbidding words - not that I counted much on using them. You'll find only trace elements of this language in the poem.

It took me realizing that a broken heart has never actually killed anyone to find the courage to ask for what I want, in just about every situation. That was part of my own growing up.