I think in order to move forward into the future, you need to know where you've been.

Many promising reconciliations have broken down because while both parties come prepared to forgive, neither party come prepared to be forgiven.

The strong hands of God twisted the crown of thorns into a crown of glory; and in such hands we are safe.

Unless devotion is given to the thing which must prove false in the end, the thing that is true in the end cannot enter.

Play and pray; but on the whole do not pray when you are playing and do not play when you are praying.

I think in order to move forward into the future, you need to know where you've been

An hour's conversation on literature between two ardent minds with a common devotion to a neglected poet is a miraculous road to intimacy.

To forgive and to be forgiven are the two points of holy magnificence and holy modesty; round these two centres the whole doctrine of largesse revolves.

It is as pleasant as it is unusual to see thoroughly good people getting their deserts.

It may be a movement towards becoming like little children to admit that we are generally nothing else.

Love was even more mathematical than poetry. It was the pure mathematics of the spirit.

Live and let live is not enough live and help live is not too much.

If you don't have time to do it right, when will you have time to do it over?

A good book is a good book, and there are a lot of different ways to approach writing or reading one.

We mountaineers always live with the feeling that we came on the scene too late.

Sundown had bloodied the horizon over the uneven rooftops of South Boston. Birds were perched on every roof and seemed to be watching the girl walking slowly below. - Cradle and All

When you're an artist, you can only do your own stuff. Even if you only write for other people, you're really more focused on yourself. So while everybody's out touring, I'm working on records.

Each generation makes it's own accounting to its children.

It is remarkable that in all of his writings Paul's prayers for his friends contain no appeals for changes in their circumstances.

Women--one half the human race at least--care fifty times more for a marriage than a ministry.

It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently.