I have a faithful joy and a joy that is lost. One is like a rose, the other, a thorn. The one that was stolen I have not lost.

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.

The truth is not so important as the leaving of it behind.

...yelling doesn't make a thing any more possible.

The one thing we can never get enough of is love. And the one thing we never give enough of is love.

Convinced as I am and as I am from my government that the world needs a new moral architecture over all I believe that this should be the first topic to debate in our world of today, ethics, moral.

I like the mentality of the Americans. It's like when you talk about money.

It is not what things are objectively and in themselves, but what they are for us, in our way of looking at them, that makes us happy or the reverse.

Reputation is what others think about you. What's far more important is character, because that is what you think about yourself.

I admire people who just do the right thing, not looking to screw people up. I love all people.

I am never free of the past. I have made it crystal clear that I believe the past is part of the present which becomes part of the future.

So here is the Great Society. It's the time - and it's going to be soon - when nobody in this country is poor.