I a stranger and afraid In a world I never made.

And malt does more than Milton can to justify God's ways to man.

Great literature should do some good to the reader: must quicken his perception though dull, and sharpen his discrimination though blunt, and mellow the rawness of his personal opinions.

That is the land of lost content, I see it shining plain, the happy highways where I went and cannot come again.

They put arsenic in his meat And stared aghast to watch him eat; They poured strychnine in his cup And shook to see him drink it up.

Now, of my threescore years and ten, Twenty will not come again.

Loveliest of trees, the cherry now Is hung with bloom along the bough.

On Wenlock Edge the wood's in trouble;His forest fleece the Wrekin heaves;The wind it plies the saplings double, And thick on Severn snow the leaves.

The last hour from midnight had lost half its quarters, and the stars went lifting up the great minutes.

The house of delusions is cheap to build but drafty to live in.

Oh I have been to Ludlow fair, and left my necktie God knows where. And carried half way home, or near, pints and quarts of Ludlow beer.

Only a monopolist could study a business and ruin it by giving away products.

In this world, all--men, women, and kings--must live for the present. We can only live for the future for God

When we clutter our lives with imagined obligations, unnecessary activities, and distractions that only kill time, we dilute the power of our lives.

Behind every man now alive stand thirty ghosts, for that is the ratio by which the dead outnumber the living.

If you're bored, your readers will be bored. If you're faking it, you won't get the kind of readers you want.

I get how devastating high taxes are to job creation.

We have to pull back, and we have to recognize it.

An actor has to evaluate his own abilities and be honest with himself.

A poet laureate of adolescent sexuality and middle-age longing.

So-called 'undesirables' are not the problem. It is the measures taken to combat them that is the problem.