Long after you’ve forgotten someone’s voice, you can still remember the sound of their happiness or their sadness. You can feel it in your body.

Hold a book in your hand and you're a pilgrim at the gates of a new city.

The truth doesn't care what we think of it.

No one is born just once. If you're lucky, you'll emerge again in someone's arms; or unlucky, wake when the long tail of terror brushes the inside of your skull.

Important lessons: look carefully; record what you see. Find a way to make beauty necessary; find a way to make necessity beautiful.

If love wants you; if you've been melted down to stars, you will love with lungs and gills; with feathers and scales; with warm blood and cold.

Some stones are so heavy only silence helps you carry them!

The best teacher lodges an intent not in the mind but in the heart.

It is not a person’s depth you must discover, but their ascent. Find their path from depth to ascent.

I'm naive enough to think that love is always good no matter how long ago, no matter the circumstances.

Reading a poem in translation is like kissing a woman through a veil.

The desperate need today is not for a greater number of intelligent people, or gifted people, but for deep people.

What to do with the past? There was so much of it.

There are three traps that strangle philosophy: The church, the marriage bed, and the professor's chair.

We need to remember across generations that there is as much to learn as there is to teach.

Advantage is a better soldier than rashness.

It is vital for artists to nurture and protect that which will make their vision unique.

My brain doesn't have enough time to play around like that. To get limber enough to have a nightmare.

The greatest art is philosophy.

Because religious institutions are not afraid to talk about love as a goal, they are likely to be more effective at providing community services.

I am proud to find, from two astronomical observations, that Chapel Hill lies right in the orbit of Jupiter and his satellites, and that the period of his revolution is about twelve years.