No matter how well you garnish a dish, it wouldn't impress anyone if it didn't taste good.

Leadership. Something you need few words for, acts are enough.

If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.

The man who has made God his dwelling place will always have a safe habitation.

We all fear loneliness, madness, dying. Shakespeare and Walt Whitman, Leopardi and Hart Crane will not cure those fears. And yet these poets bring us fire and light.

Primum non nocerum. (First do no harm)

Teachers wondered why I didn't speak up more in class. Why would I when I knew how precarious words could be, how betraying they were, how vulnerable they made you?

Chance favors those who are prepared.

I am proud to say that I am a fortunate homosexual man. I am very blessed to be who I am.

I think in the world of politics run by the left, men have been chickified.

As man, as beast, as an ephemeral fly begets, Godhead begets Godhead, For things below are copies, the Great Smaragdine Tablet said. Yet all must copy copies, all increase their kind.