But self-abasement is just inverted egoism. Anyone who acts with genuine humility will be as far from humiliation as from arrogance.

The change of language is a change in reality.

He doesn't hear but sees the Voice.

The lead-up to the moment was magical in every respect, but a part of me was, and still is, uneasy about the whole thing for many reasons.

A goal without action is like a late night dream.

Holy words and pure and goodly deeds ascend unto the heaven of celestial glory.

I don't know any kid that's not afraid at some point going to bed with the lights off, totally. That's why they make nightlights.

When I'm playing best, I'm just thinking about the music, just interacting with what my bandmates are playing.

No matter what the problem is, our experiences are just outer effects of inner thoughts.

The surest way to be happy is to seek happiness for others.

I tell my students to think of poems as language plus, language with value added beyond its everyday use.

How we live is so different from how we ought to live that he who studies what ought to be done rather than what is done will learn the way to his downfall rather than to his preservation.

Your library teacher would say, "What happens to a generation that doesn't read the Classics?" Me, I'm not your library teacher. But I have some of the same questions and concerns, you know?