I get up and I have coffee and I speak to no man and I go to my desk.

The words! I collected them in all shapes and sizes and hung them like bangles in my mind.

But memory, after a time, dispenses its own emphasis, making a feuilleton of what we once thought most ponderable, laying its wreath on what we never thought to recall.

if you listen too hard to the technology, your ear goes deaf to its implications.

perhaps there's no sharper spur to meditation than answered prayer.

Agony without genius was gaucherie.

When anything gets freed, a zest goes round the world.

Women can't travel light. We're in charge of the basic facts.

I always say that one's poetry is a solace to oneself and a nuisance to one's friends.

This is my answer to the gap between ideas and action - I will write it out.

I don't suppose there's really any critic except posterity.

Be a person of value

If you're in trouble, or hurt or need - go to the poor people. They're the only ones that'll help - the only ones.

Feelings, like waves, look more substantial than they are.

We can never change the negative things that happened to us in the past, but we surely have the power to control the mental damages they could cause in our minds.

Aeneas carried his aged father on his back from the ruins of Troy and so do we all, whether we like it or not, perhaps even if we have never known them.

I would rather put up with Rush Limbaugh and live in a country where we all do have freedom of speech.

What your glasse telles you, will not be told by Councell.

For preachers, clarity is a moral matter. It is not merely a question of rhetoric, but a matter of life and death.

Is there cowardice with the acknowledgement of fear?

My faith graduated to a place called trust, that I know ultimately - ultimately, that God has good things for me.