ON PROBLEMSOur choicest planshave fallen through, our airiest castlestumbled over, because of lineswe neatly drewand later neatlystumbled over.

Nature, it seems, is the popular namefor milliards and milliards and milliardsof particles playing their infinite gameof billiards and billiards and billiards.

Lovers meander in prose and rhyme, trying to say-for the thousandth time-what's easier done than said.

Put up in a placewhere it is easy to seethe cryptic admonishmentT.T.TWhen you feel how depressinglyslowly you climbit's well to remember thatThings Take Time.

Shepherds use religion to fight wars, sheep fight over religion.

Art is solving problems that cannot be formulated before they have been solved. The shaping of the question is part of the answer.

Living isa thing you donow or never --which do you?

WHO IS LEARNED? A definition One who, consuming midnight oilin studies diligent and slow, teaches himself, with painful toil, the things that other people know.

Losing one glove is certainly painful, but nothing compared to the pain, of losing one, throwing away the other, and finding the first one again.

THE WISDOM OF THE SPHERESHow instructiveis a star!It can teach usfrom afarjust how smalleach other are.

CANDLE WISDOM If you knewwhat you will knowwhen your candlehas burnt low, it would greatlyease your plightwhile your candlestill burns bright.

Where can you go from nowhere, except deeper into nowhere?

It's such an extraordinary supple medium that you never do quite know what paint will do.

The good displeases us when we are not up to it.

Everybody in the world is talking about Canada…outside of the US, there is probably no country in the world that is producing more blue-chip young basketball talent than Canada.

This command seems to me to be strictly a missionary injunction; so that, apart altogether from choice and other lower reasons, my going forth is a matter of obedience to a plain command.

You should never be so high and mighty you can't listen to somebody else and learn something from them. Leadership is as much about using the ear as using the mouth.

Bush, Blair and Rumsfeld; they are the funny trio.

In between goals is a thing called life, that has to be lived and enjoyed.

Sister, mother And spirit of the river, spirit of the sea, Suffer me not to be separated And let my cry come unto Thee.

War is a matter not so much of arms as of money.