It takes most men five years to recover from a college education, and to learn that poetry is as vital to thinking as knowledge.

Land was created to provide a place for boats to visit.

Drop the last year into the silent limbo of the past. Let it go, for it was imperfect, and thank God that it can go.

Don't be condescending to unskilled labor. Try it for a half a day first.

It seems not to have been written. It is the quintessence of life. It is the basic truth.

In every age 'the good old days' were a myth. No one ever thought they were good at the time. For every age has consisted of crises that seemed intolerable to the people who lived through them.

Bureaucracies are designed to perform public business. But as soon as a bureaucracy is established, it develops an autonomous spiritual life and comes to regard the public as its enemy.

Poetry is as vital to thinking as knowledge.

Say "Yes" to the seedlings and a giant forest cleaves the sky. Say "Yes" to the universe and the planets become your neighbors. Say "Yes" to dreams of love and freedom. It is the password to utopia.

The virtue of the camera is not the power it has to transform the photographer into an artist, but the impulse it gives him to keep on looking.

Every man with an idea has at least two or three followers.

Belief driven by determination is one key factor governing whether what you pursue becomes real or not.

Natural disasters happen from time to time but poverty happens all the time and therefore poverty is the greatest tragedy, it is the greatest disaster of mankind!

G - God’sR - RedemptionA - AtC - Christ’sE - Expense

On the whole, I think you should write biographies of those you admire and respect, and novels about human beings who you think are sadly mistaken.

There is no strength in unbelief. Even the unbelief of what is false is no source of might. It is the truth shining from behind that gives the strength to disbelieve.

Lies, fables and romances must needs be probable, but not the truth and foundation of our faith.

Excellence is the name of the game.

I am from the planet of elegance.

Live among others as if God beheld you; speak to God as if others were listening.

The most powerful healing arises from the simple intention to love the life within you, unconditionally, with as much tenderness and presence as possible.