I never intended to be a teacher. I just like going to school and learning things.

Sometimes when reading Goethe I have the paralyzing suspicion that he is trying to be funny.

The poet is at the edge of our consciousness of the world, finding beyond the suspected nothingness which we imagine limits our perception another acre or so of being worth our venturing upon.

Art is always the replacement of indifference by attention.

Imagination is like the drunk man who lost his watch and must get drunk again to find it.

We will always return to the private and inviolable act of reading as our culture's way of developing an individual.

I’ve carved the puppet, and I manipulate the strings, but while it’s on stage, the show belongs to the puppet.

In curved Einsteinian space we are at all times, technically, looking at the back of our own head.

A work of art is a form that articulates forces, making them intelligible.

Unless the work of art has wholly exhausted its makers attention, it fails. This is why works of great significance are demanding and why they are infinitely rewarding.

nothing now exists that is so valuable as whatever theoretically might replace it.

We must be more and more to each other, my dear wife.' -Charles Darwin to wife Emma upon loss of daughter Annie

You know, you really can't beat a household commodity - the ketchup bottle on the kitchen table.

The size of your paycheck shouldn’t determine your child’s future.

It's curious how many people are ready to believe that the highest prices guarantee the best value.

You're 18 points down [in the polls]... You might as well do what's right.

I am sure all politicians will be convinced of the merits of this deal.

History is replete with instances of men, who, by dying with courage and compassion on their lips converted the hearts of their violent opponents.

We will never have more affection or passion for God than we understand He has for us. We will never be more committed to God than our understanding of His commitment to us.

I shuddered from stem to stern, as stout barks do when buffeted by the waves.

Attention is the material I work with.