All the events of our life are materials of which we can make what we will.

A hero is one who knows how to hang on one minute longer.

Life must not be a novel that is given to us, but one that is made by us.

Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.

Where are we really going? Always home.

Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.

There is but one temple in the universe, and that is the body of man.

The mysterious path goes inward. It is in us, and not anywhere else, where the eternity of the worlds, the past and the future are found.

In cheerful souls there is no wit. Wit shows a disturbance of the equipoise.

When you understand how to love one thing, then you also understand how to love everything.

Nature is an aeolian harp, a musical instrument whose tones are the re-echo of higher strings within us.

I know nothing new except that Herr Gellert, the Leipzig poet, is dead, and has written no more poetry since his death.

Painting is self-discovery. You arrive at the image through the act of painting.

Archaeopteryx probably cannot tell us much about the early origins of feathers and flight in true protobirds because Archaeopteryx was, in the modern sense, a bird.

Surveys have shown going back as far as you and I can remember that people have perceived a leftward tilt in the basic coverage that they get on TV news.

I must say I'm surprised by how skeptical of the [Barack] Obama administration The Nation has been.

A secret remains a secret until you make someone promise never to reveal it.

Food makes my mind sluggish.

...and he extends and grows even bigger than he is. (on Peter Schmeichel)

It's exciting setting goals and moving forward with them.

As a child of West Texas, I identify with Hispanic culture every bit as much as I do North American culture.