I wonder at the idleness of tears.

To hear that your neighbor was worse off than yourself was not an altogether unpleasant experience.

The old faiths light their candles all about, but burly Truth comes by and puts them out.

For poetry, more than any other art, except music, has a compelling hold upon the spiritual side of life.

The sun pours out like wine.

Glad that I live am I; That the sky is blue; Glad for the country lanes, And the fall of dew.

A child without an acquaintance of some kind with a classic of literature ... suffers from that impoverishment for the rest of his life. No later intimacy is like that of the first.

... she was a pudding of immaturity and precocious wisdom that had not yet set into a stable mold.

For success, don't take the path of least resistance. Take the path of most persistence.

What begins in fear usually ends in folly.

Why did I write? whose sin to me unknown Dipt me in ink, my parents', or my own? As yet a child, nor yet a fool to fame, I lisp'd in numbers, for the numbers came.

When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost.

People overestimate what they can accomplish in the near term and underestimate what they can accomplish in the long term.

Hence the solution lies in finding a means of so readjusting this exclusive element to the family of nations, that the basis of the Jewish question will be permanently removed.

Do not limit the limitless God! With Him, face the future unafraid because you are never alone.

You don't want the white men to be written in a three-dimensional way but the black men, not. I mean, it's just about [how] scripts should always reflect real human beings. So that's what I look for.

As a society we cannot seem to make peace with nature. As individuals, it's hard for us to be at peace with ourselves.