Liberal hopefulness Regards death as a mere border to an improving picture.

This world is good enough for me, if only I can be good enough for it.

Life involves maintaining oneself between contradictions that can't be solved by analysis.

The machinations of ambiguity are among the very roots of poetry.

Poetry contains nothing haphazard.

The heart of standing is that you cannot fly.

The central function of imaginative literature is to make you realize that other people act on moral convictions different from your own.

Law makes long spokes of the short stakes of men.

Twixt devil and deep sea, man hacks his caves; Birth, death; one, many; what is true, and seems; Earth's vast hot iron, cold space's empty waves.

Proust has listed a great many reasons why it is impossible to be happy, but, in the course of being happy, one finds it difficult to remember them.

The difficult part of good temper consists in forbearance, and accommodation to the ill-humors of others.

Love seems the swiftest but it is the slowest of all growths. No man or woman really knows what perfect love is until they have been married a quarter of a century.

I am not one of those who left the land to the mercy of its enemies. Their flattery leaves me cold, my songs are not for them to praise.

Fiddling knobs, touching keys, having fun with a full grown man.

I think [Alex Acosta]will be a tremendous secretary of labor.

I want to be alone with my thought.

Although I have to admit I have despised a couple of people simply because they have never had a job in their lives.

Some people don't even notice. "Oh, you sound exactly like you did!" And I say, "OK, if that's what you want to believe, that's fine."

The history of skiing is important to me.

When you're a foreigner, at the beginning you are far away from the culture. Then, little by little, you start to interact with people, have friends, have a life, and then you feel more comfortable.

In the arms of the angel, fly away from here....you are pulled from the wreckage, of your silent reverie, you're in the arms of the angel, may you find some comfort here.