It is a test (a positive test, I do not assert that it is always valid negatively), that genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.

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.

To be happy, pursue your purpose with love and honesty.

He said a man should always have to work hard to win a woman's heart, because when he gets it, it's worth it, and he'll never take it for granted.

The general instrument by which God interferes in the affairs of men is by the weapon of LIGHT

Tomorrow is more sure than just about anything else in the entire world.

We were determined by public opinions of us. Would we think we existed without outside confirmation? And how long would we live apart from others before we began to doubt our existence?

Let us keep Christmas still a shining thing.

Plays are getting smaller and smaller, not because playwrights minds are shrinking but because of the economics.

Kids, fiction is the truth inside the lie, and the truth of this fiction is simple enough: the magic exists.

I'm trying to get far away from [picturing God as] Gandalf or Santa Claus.

Cast aside any column about two subjects. It means the pundit chickened out on the hard decision about what to write about that day.