I'm not important, having a child is not an amazing feat, and my child, while extraordinarily important to and beloved by her parents, is not particularly special in the scheme of things.

I would like The Discovery of Poetry to be a field guide to the natural pleasures of language - a happiness we were born to have.

The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism

A critic is a man who writes about things he doesn't like.

You can pretend for a long time, but one day it all falls away and you are alone. We are alone in the most beautiful place in the world.

The Constitution established the United States of America as a Christian nation.

I am never long, even in the society of her I love, without yearning for the company of my lamp and my library.

None are so inconsiderate as those who demand nothing of life other than their own personal comfort.

None of the systems we have created are producing the outcomes that were intended. They're actually producing exactly the opposite.

There is nothing that could be revealed about a pastor that has not already been covered by the blood of Jesus

It is as we respond to the understandings and feelings inherent in . . . art that we acquire much of our truth, much of our nobility and grace, and much of our pleasure.