At the violet hour, when the eyes and back Turn upward from the desk, when the human engine waits Like a taxi throbbing waiting I Tiresias, though blind, throbbing between two lives.

It is never too late to be what you might have been.

Most of the trouble in the world is caused by people wanting to be important.

Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.

We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.

If we really want to pray we must first learn to listen, for in the silence of the heart God speaks.

I learn a great deal by merely observing you, and letting you talk as long as you please, and taking note of what you do not say.

Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?

Finding a way to live the simple life is one of life's supreme complications.

April is the cruelest month, breeding lilacs out of the dead land, mixing memory and desire, stirring dull roots with spring rain.

The journey, Not the destination matters.

Me too thy nobleness has taughtTo master my despair

If we had no faults we should not take so much pleasure in noting those of others.

Wayne put me right here, that's who I get the paper wit. I hope that my success never alters our relationship.

... if the Republicans don't bring prosperity, who on earth is going to?

While the Internet is censored in China, the censorship is allowing a level of speech to take place that's unprecedented.

There is one grace you cannot counterfeit . . . the grace of perseverance.

The biggest problem I see among people who want to excel in chess – and in business and in life in general – is not trusting their instincts enough.

No human influenced me to become vegan. The screaming, terrified, enslaved animals were the only influence needed.

The commonality in the human experience is the same. We have the same sorrows, and the same triumphs. Joy is joy is joy.

Nothing is fool-proof to a sufficiently talented fool.