Death is never an ending, death is a change; Death is beautiful, for death is strange; Death is one dream out of another flowing.

The hiss was now becoming a roar - the whole world was a vast moving screen of snow - but even now it said peace, it said remoteness, it said cold, it said sleep.

All lovely things will have an ending, all lovely things will fade and die; and youth, that's now so bravely spending, Will beg a penny by and by.

The wandering one, the inquisitive dreamer of dreams, the eternal asker of answers, stands in the street, and lifts his palms for the first cold ghost of rain.

[At a musical concert:] . . . the music's pure algebra of enchantment.

Forward into the untrodden! Courage, old man, and hold on to your umbrella!

My heart has become as hard as a city street, the horses trample upon it, it sings like iron, all day long and all night long they beat, they ring like the hooves of time.

I'm afraid I wasn't much of a student, but my casual reading was enormous.

O sweet clean earth, from whom the green blade cometh! When we are dead, my best beloved and I, close well above us, that we may rest forever, sending up grass and blossoms to the sky.

Music I heard with you was more than music, and bread I broke with you was more than bread. Now that I am without you, all is desolate; all that was once so beautiful is dead.

Separate we come, and separate we go, And this be it known, is all that we know.

We do not enjoy a story fully at the first reading.

Nationalism is form of collective narcissism, where the citizens possess an inflated self-love of "their own people, " to the exclusion of other human beings.

Our memories have voices, too. Often sad ones that clamor like raised arms in the dark.

The blurring of fact and fiction has great commercial potential, which is bound to be corrupting in historical terms.

God's idea is for us to become the Word of God, in such a way that men can read the Word by looking at our lives.

Leadership responsibility: If you own a biz, you're the head of the org. Good or bad, your company will LOOK and ACT like you do.

Laugh, if thou art wise.

Doubt, but still hate!

You don't pick up cues, you pick up impulses.

I've had dentists who have wanted to help me out, but I say, 'You know, I won't work again if you fix my teeth.'