Friends are not made, but recognized.

At the time, there were very few foreign names in the press and they were all factory workers. I thought I'd never get a job at a university with a foreign name.

... Kindness, sweetest of the small notes in the world's ache, most modest & gentle of the elements entered man before history and became his daily connection, let no man tell you otherwise.

I fell in love with social work, and that was my undoing as a poet.

All the beatitudes manifest in the sacred-time.

Love doesn’t conquer all

Drugs, what a devil-inspired poison! It’s death on the installment plan.

Prayer cannot bring water to parched fields, or mend a broken bridge, or rebuild a ruined city; but prayer can water an arid soul, mend a broken heart, and rebuild a weakened will.

Do you ever feel like screaming?' Clary asked him [Jace]. 'Some of the time.

I'd rather stay away from the limelight. Not because I'm trying to be a good boy and all that stuff. I just love quiet.

Whoever cultivates the golden mean avoids both the poverty of a hovel and the envy of a palace.

Do not, do not, do not books for ever hammer at people like perpetual bells? When, between two books, silent sky appears: be glad

If people are going to do things which have certain consequences that they would rather avoid, they should do whatever they need to avoid the consequences.

Great griefs medicine the less.