Loving like prayer is a power as well as a process. It's curative. It is creative.

I don't know a better preparation for life than a love of poetry and a good digestion.

The unexpressed is always of greater value than the expressed.

I tell you of all history the most beautiful product is the family tie.

When you look at a corpse you can always sense your own breath better.

Always he had wanted to tell somebody about his life, but when he had tried, his confidante had looked at him.

Loving, like prayer, is a power as well as a process. It's curative. It is creative.

Enjoy yourself. These are the "good old days" you're going to miss in the years ahead.

You can certainly extend your adolescence. There's people that are very good at extending it indefinitely.

None but a poet can write a tragedy. For tragedy is nothing less than pain transmuted into exaltation by the alchemy of poetry.

Get comfortable with the uncomfortable.

Poverty is a great equalizer

One of the things I love about cinema is the range.

If you really believe in the brotherhood of man, and you want to come into its fold, you've got to let everyone else in, too.

Relax in the precious arms of the Holy Spirit.

The free state offers what a police state denies - the privacy of the home, the dignity and peace of mind of the individual.

I ask you, is it the fig tree's fault that it's not the season for figs? What kind of thing is that to do to an innocent tree, wither it instantly?