Doctors of ancient times used to recommend reading to their patients as a physical exercise on an equal level as walking, running, or ball-playing.

True love is the tide that pulls out to sea, but always returns to kiss the shore at sunrise.

You can't grasp the wonderful and keep your feet on the ground.

a joy that hurts with sadness a sadness that is pleasurable a pleasure full of terror a terror that excites an excitement that calms a calmness that frightens.

The man who mobilizes the Christian church to pray will make the greatest contribution to world evangelization in history.

Over the first three rounds you're playing the course. In the final round, if you're in contention, you're playing the man.

Whenever they say it can’t be done, remind them that they make a jellybean that tastes exactly like popcorn.

Every good piece of art... involves first essentially the evidence of human skill, and the formation of an actually beautiful thing by it.

That's usually how they start, the young ones. Meaningless waffle.

We had a rule in the school that when you're punished, you carry out the punishment and then complain, which I felt was absolutely unfair: if I'd done it, what was the point of complaining?

I would enjoy having dinner with the poet/playwright Derek Walcott.