Character is a wish for a perfect education.

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.

A wise person is like a lighthouse. We are looking for their lights and follow them when we are in danger.

I could never stand to be a writer. Not a real writer. It's entirely too awful, having thoughts that refuse to become sentences.

All everyone is trying to do is create a better life for the human race. Why can't everyone stop fighting and start working together to accomplish that?

Unless and until something concrete is done about addressing the Israeli-Palestinian issue you won't get a real start on the war against terrorism.

The two most important things in life are good friends and a strong bullpen.

Rise early. Write. Disappoint your sons. Read the newspaper. Go to bed early. Success.

Between craft and credulity, the voice of reason is stifled.

No Santa Claus! Thank God! he lives, and he lives forever. A thousand years from now, Virginia, nay, ten times ten thousand years from now, he will continue to make glad the heart of childhood.

To have everything is to possess nothing.

I think the recovery hasn't been stronger because the hole that was dug for President Obama by the Bush administration was far worse than anybody could imagine, first of all.