Life must be kept up at a great rate in order to absorb any considerable amount of learning.

In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.

By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day.

The best way out is always through.

Two roads diverged in a wood and I - I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.

But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep, and miles to go before I sleep.

Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.

Live life like its the last breath you take for that breath is the whole essence of living, the little things in life are what connects us to all the big things we live for

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.

A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.

Before I built a wall I'd ask to know what I was walling in or walling out.

I turn my back on him as he goes, and settle myself in the parlor, and touch Ma's piano.My fingers leave sighsin the dust.

Of all devotions, that of adoring Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament is the greatest after the sacraments, the one dearest to God and the one most helpful to us.

I tell it stories now and then and feed it images like honey. I will not speculate today with poems that think they're money.

Since the Middle Ages, people have been writing about angels. Angelology was actually at one point a scholastic discipline.

NAFTA stripped us of manufacturing jobs. We lost our jobs. We lost our money. We lost our plants. It is a disaster.

Jane Austen we know never let two men converse alone in any novel because what they said would be unknown to her.

In her heart she longed for this man, dreamed of a life that could never be.

Nothing is ever cut-and-dried. There's anguish behind everything.

God's idea of redemption is community-shaped.