Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal; bad poets deface what they take, and good poets make it into something better, or at least something different.

It is never too late to be what you might have been.

Most of the trouble in the world is caused by people wanting to be important.

Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.

We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.

If we really want to pray we must first learn to listen, for in the silence of the heart God speaks.

I learn a great deal by merely observing you, and letting you talk as long as you please, and taking note of what you do not say.

Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?

Finding a way to live the simple life is one of life's supreme complications.

April is the cruelest month, breeding lilacs out of the dead land, mixing memory and desire, stirring dull roots with spring rain.

The journey, Not the destination matters.

... the reigns of the kings and queens who are portrayed as kneeling with clasped hands in the windows of churches, were stained by oppression and bloodshed.

What would have to occur or to have occurred to constitute for you a disproof of the love of, or the existence of, God?

Videogames are a little more work and they're a little more stilted.

I knew when I was in high school that I wanted a job where they'd applaud if I showed up.

Of all devils let loose in the world there is no devil like devoted love.

Godly character flows out of devotion to God and practically confirms the reality of that devotion.

A thirsty ambition for truth and virtue, and a frenzy to conquer all lies and vices which are not recognized as such nor desire to be; herein consists the heroic spirit of the philosopher.

The surest test if a person be sane, is if she accepts life whole, as it is.

Why don't these companies making big profits just pay people better than $14 an hour? It's kind of simple. When you're making record profits, why not? I don't get it.

Political liberty is only good insofar as it produces private liberty.