Let your home be you mast and not your anchor.

Our anxiety does not come from thinking about the future, but from wanting to control it.

Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children.

When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.

We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.

When you reach the end of what you should know, you will be at the beginning of what you should sense.

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

I love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple, pray in your church. For you and I are sons of one religion, and it is the spirit.

If your heart is a volcano, how shall you expect flowers to bloom?

You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.

Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary.

Only after disaster can we be resurrected. It's only after you've lost everything that you're free to do anything. Nothing is static, everything is evolving, everything is falling apart.

Life's gift to you is your unique vantage point. Your gift to life is expressing from it.

When it came to writing about wine, I did what almost everybody does - faked it

It's a weird feeling more than anything. You kind of have to swallow your pride a little bit, realize we won the game, be excited about it. We get to go back to D.C.

I had this idea about terrible things happening to orphans, and I knew it was such a horrible idea that the idea of writing it down and then submitting it professionally was obviously absurd.

Where Christ brings His cross He brings His presence; and where He is none are desolate, and there is no room for despair.

I'm curious about people. That's what I've always done since I've been a small boy. I'm curious about others.

Art is coming face to face with yourself.

I think I love most people best when they are in adversity; for pity is one of my prevailing passions.

Earth, left silent by the wind of night,Seems shrunken 'neath the gray unmeasured height.