Kindness and courage can repair time's faults, And serving him breeds patience and courtesy In us, light sojourners and passing subjects.

And without fear the lawless roads Ran wrong through all the land.

The ancestral deed is thought and done, And in a million Edens fall A million Adams drowned in darkness, For small is great and great is small, And a blind seed all.

The curse of Scottish literature is the lack of a whole language, which finally means the lack of a whole mind.

The life of every man is an endlessly repeated performance of the life of man.

There is a road that turning always Cuts off the country of Again. Archers stand there on every side And as it runstime's deer is slain, And lies where it has lain.

We meet ourselves at every turn In the long country of the past.

Packed in my skin from head to toe is one I know and do not know.

I have observed in foolish awe The dateless mid-days of the law And seen indifferent justice done By everyone on everyone.

Sometimes we think of the nations lying asleep, Curled blindly in impenetrable sorrow, And then the thought confounds us with its strangeness.

See him, the gentle Bible beast, / With lacquered hoofs and curling mane, / His wondering journey from the East / Half done, between the rock and plain.

Know this about yourself: there is only one reason professional salespeople lose orders-- they are outsold.

Can it be that man is essentially a being who loves to conquer difficulties a creature whose function is to solve problems?

I love Ralph Lauren. As I travel so much, I prefer to shop online.

But we were made to believe and not allowed to think. We were told to obey, rather than to experiment and investigate.

Without philosophy man cannot know what he makes; without religion he cannot know why.

Look at the subject as if you have never seen it before. Examine it from every side. Draw its outline with your eyes or in the air with your hands, and saturate yourself with it.

Happiness is sitting down to watch some slides of your neighbor's vacation and finding out that he spent two weeks in a nudist colony.

There is so much poetry, and yet nothing is more rare than a poetic work. This is what the masses make out of poetical sketches, studies, aphorisms, trends, ruins, and raw material.

I've found that depending on the amount of the check, disciplined inspiration can be called upon willingly. I think the name of the lesser known tenth muse was Dollar Dollar Bill Y'all.

When goodness is lost, it is replaced by morality.