Everything at a distance turns into poetry; distant mountains, distant people, distant events; all become Romantic.

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.

Remembered pain tightened his mouth into a grim line. The weeks he’d spent looking for her had left permanent scars on his heart.

Belief and faith have nothing to do with each other. Beliefs are the manifestation of fear whereas faith comes from courage.

History has rewritten itself so many times I'm not really sure how it was to begin with -- it's a bit like trying to guess the original color of a wall when it's been repainted eight times.

It's one thing for someone to travel over to Syria and Iraq and come back. But, boy, it's a lot easier if they activate someone who's already here.

I have no fear of death, except I hate waiting for it.

I mean, the Obama position has been, "We think government ought to be spending this money, not the people who earn it."

I think God is as much a basic ingredient in the universe as neutrons and positrons. This is the prime force, when we look around the universe.

Leo Connellan has retained his soul and voice in Provincetown and Other Poems.

That's why school was invented - to give your parents some peace and quiet during the day.

People might like to think a war is done when a cease fire is signed, but for most people who lived through a war it goes on for decades.