Let none presume To wear an undeserved dignity.

Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.

The course of true love never did run smooth.

Better three hours too soon than a minute too late.

It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.

No legacy is so rich as honesty.

God has given you one face, and you make yourself another.

It is not in our stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.

The Eyes are the window to your soul

What a terrible era in which idiots govern the blind.

Hell is empty and all the devils are here.

Deep, contended joy comes from a place of complete security and confidence [in God] - even in the midst of trial.

I fear oblivion' he said. "I fear it like a proverbial blind man fears the dark

I don't think poetry is something that can be taught. We can encourage young writers, but what you can't teach them is the very essence of poetry.

You know, after all these years, it's just like we are who we are and it's a struggle for me and sometimes I'm heavier and sometimes I'm thinner.

Marriage is the most basic expression of the vocation to love that all men and women have as persons made in God's image.

Who you are is strong enough to bare your pain

When you do an interview with me, you're talking to a cheap imitation of the person that I really am. There's no magic in my words, it's just me talking.

We all walk in different shoes.

All big changes of the world come from words.

There is an awful lot of what I call recreational jazz going on, where people go out and learn a particular language or style and become real sharks on somebody else's language.