For me, religiosity is ... the constant remembrance of the presence of the soul.

Many things can wait. Children cannot. Today their bones are being formed, their blood is being made, their senses are being developed. To them we cannot say "tomorrow." Their name is today.

You shall create beauty not to excite the senses but to give sustenance to the soul.

Love beauty it is the shadow of God on the universe

Speech is our second possession, after the soul-and perhaps we have no other possession in this world.

Love that stammers, that stutters, is apt to be the love that loves best.

What the soul is to the body, so is the artist to his people.

The poet is an untier of knots, and love without words is a knot, and it drowns.

There is the joy of being healthy and fair, but there is overall the beauty, the immense joy of being useful.

Let the earth look at me, and bless me, for now I am fecund and sacred, like the palms and the furrows.

I have all that I lost and I go carrying my childhood like a favorite flower that perfumes my hand.

there comes a timewhen you have to let goall the wordsall the teachingand trust the infinite

You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed.

How easy it would be just to let go, to go willingly into all that wonderful energy.

I'm not a folk-singer. I just sing a certain place.

The United States has written the white history of the United States. It now needs to write the black, Latino, Indian, Asian and Caribbean history of the United States.

Charity may cover a multitude of sins, but success transmutes them into virtues.

During my addled career as a trout fisherman I have gone on a lot of wild-goose chases, and I ruefully expect to go on a lot more before I hang up my waders

Let God fling you out (as seed), and do not go until He does. If you select your own spot, you will prove an empty pod. If God sows you, you will bring forth fruit.

What I am finding now is that my audience is getting younger as I get older, which is a very good thing as you know - you don't want them to get older as you get older.

My mum's from Yorkshire and my parents aren't snotty or posh - they're very hard workers, both of them.