Balance is compromise. Of the muscles.

The words! I collected them in all shapes and sizes and hung them like bangles in my mind.

But memory, after a time, dispenses its own emphasis, making a feuilleton of what we once thought most ponderable, laying its wreath on what we never thought to recall.

if you listen too hard to the technology, your ear goes deaf to its implications.

perhaps there's no sharper spur to meditation than answered prayer.

Agony without genius was gaucherie.

When anything gets freed, a zest goes round the world.

Women can't travel light. We're in charge of the basic facts.

I always say that one's poetry is a solace to oneself and a nuisance to one's friends.

I get up and I have coffee and I speak to no man and I go to my desk.

This is my answer to the gap between ideas and action - I will write it out.

Diplomacy's primary law: LEAVE ROOM FOR NEGOTIATION.

Ideas are universal, the names and titles we give them are not.

My definition of elegance is the achievement of a given functionality with a minimum of mechanism and a maximum of clarity.

The most important thing an institution does is not to prepare a student for a career but for a life as a citizen.

I would like to try to understand what is. We know very little, and I am trying to do it by creating analogies. Almost every work of art is an analogy.

The art has three factors, the disease, the patient, the physician. The physician is the servant of the art. The patient must cooperate with the physician in combatting the disease.

I stepped on a land mine named Jayson Blair.

One learns more of Christ in being married and rearing children than in several lifetimes spent in study in a monastery.

Overconfidence comes from fear and doubt, and you boast an ego when you're feeling less than.

You are free to choose, even if you choose not to.