My breath hovers over the river of God - / Softly I set my foot / On the path to my long home.

My love for you is the sole image / Of God a human is allowed.

Were my smile not submerged in my countenance, / I should suspend it over her grave.

I enjoy books. No room is fit for occupation without a lining of books.

Doing great work is a struggle. It's draining, it's demoralizing, it's frightening - not always, but it can feel that way when we're deep in the middle of it.

And like anyone who is in valiant pursuit of dreams, the ups and downs come and go, but the dream lives in the heart forever.

He seemed to have established in his mind an affinity between the two great passions of his life – pale ale and revolution – and assuredly he could not taste the one without dreaming of the other.

You win the victory when you yield to friends.

All the business of war, and indeed all the business of life, is to endeavour to find out what you don't know by what you do; that's what I called 'guess what was at the other side of the hill'.

Descartes's epistemology is a special case of Aristotle's virtue ethics.

That sort of reputation which precedes performance [is] often the larger part of a man's fame.

Spirituality does not mean going away from life. Spirituality means becoming alive in the fullest possible way so you are not just alive on the surface, you are alive to the core.

People call me and ask me for advice all the time. On an elevator they tell me their problems. I think it's in part because I'm Italian so I'm emotionally available and I have a friendly persona.