It's always our touches of vanity that manage to betray us.

In tragedy every moment is eternity; in comedy, eternity is a moment.

What, after all,is a halo? It's only one more thing to keep clean.

Poetry is a language in which man explores his own amazement.

Imagination is the wide-open eye which leads us always to see truth more vividly.

Between our birth and death we may touch understanding, As a moth brushes a window with its wing

There may always be another reality to make fiction of the truth we think we've arrived at.

The best Thing we can do is to make wherever we're lost in Look as much like home as we can.

I know your cause is lost, but in the heart / Of all right causes is a cause that cannot lose.

Comedy is an escape, not from truth but from despair; a narrow escape into faith.

We must each find our separate meaning in the persuasion of our days until we meet in the meaning of the world.

She was exactly right and wrong in the perfect sort of way. This kiss would be the first of many, she was the type of girl I would desperately fight for to stay.

I was going to write a book one day and I actually did. To have it is a major accomplishment for me.

Give her not greatness. For great souls must stand Alone and lonely in this little world: Cleft rocks that show the great Creator's hand, Thither by earthquakes hurled.

Merely complaining without proposing an alternative offers nothing.

Before you use a fancy word, make room for it.

Either one lives for politics or one lives off politics.

Sometimes two people stay together for the sake of the kids - two kids who sat under a full moon and pledged to be forever true.

It's been important to cultures throughout history with the court jester and the witch doctor and the shaman - all preach the same thing.

A generous and elevated mind is distinguished by nothing more certainly than an eminent degree of curiosity.

Love is when there is no denying "it"...that magical, elusive feeling that really seizes us and takes us from the inside.