If disorder is the rule with you, you will be penalized for installing order.

Books have the same enemies as people: fire, humidity, animals, weather, and their own content.

Man's great misfortune is that he has no organ, no kind of eyelid or brake, to mask or block a thought, or all thought, when he wants to.

War: a massacre of people who don't know each other for the profit of people who know each other but don't massacre each other.

A poem is never finished, only abandoned.

Nothing beautiful can be summarized.

The universe is built on a plan the profound symmetry of which is somehow present in the inner structure of our intellect.

A great man is one who leaves others at a loss after he is gone.

Love is being stupid together.

The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.

Let us enrich ourselves with our mutual differences.

Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.

I had never seen anyone fight and I had never been taught to defend myself. But I knew hurt and never wondered that day what it was I had to do if I didn't want to be hurt again.

Perhaps this was one of the tragedies life plots for us: it is our destiny to become in old age what in youth we would have most despised.

Collect moments rather than things. Moments get away.

You and I are just like a blade of grass sitting here; we are going to wither and die. "But the word of the Lord endures forever"

I like to be surprised. Fresh implications and plot twists erupt as a story unfolds. Characters develop backgrounds, adding depth and feeling. Writing feels like exploring

I will proudly promote our system of government and our way of life as the best in the world, just like we did in our campaign against communism during the Cold War.

If the United States is treating Afghanistan as a sovereign country it has to prove it.

We imagine things — that we wouldn't be able to survive, but in fact, we do survive. ... We have no choice, so we do it.

God has enough grace to solve every dilemma you face, wipe every tear you cry, and answer every question you ask.