Peace goes into the making of a poem as flour goes into the making of bread.

He who does not travel, who does not read, who does not listen to music, who does not find grace in himself, she who does not find grace in herself, dies slowly.

If nothing saves us from death, at least love should save us from life

Love is not about property, diamonds and gifts. It is about sharing your very self with the world around you.

In one kiss, you'll know all I haven't said.

To feel the love of people whom we love is a fire that feeds our life.

Every day you play with the light of the universe.

Someday, somewhere - anywhere, unfailingly, you'll find yourself, and that, and only that, can be the happiest or bitterest hour of your life.

You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep Spring from coming.

And one by one the nights between our separated cities are joined to the night that unites us.

If each day falls inside each night, there exists a well where clarity is imprisoned. We need to sit on the rim of the well of darkness and fish for fallen light with patience.

They were new money, without a doubt: so new it shrieked. Their clothes looked as it they'd covered themselves in glue, then rolled around in hundred-dollar bills.

It is a fool's sheep that breaks loose twice.

Sometimes a man is intensely, even passionately, attached to suffering — that is a fact.

Is there anyone... who will maintain that the Party System could have been created by people particularly fond of truth?

You cannot have growth without change.

God is so omnipresent. . . . God is an angel in an angel, and a stone in a stone, and a straw in a straw.

I wanted to be a poet when I was 20; I had no interest in fiction or biography and precious little interest in history, but those three elements in my life have become the most important.

A republic properly understood is a sovereignty of justice, in contradistinction to a sovereignty of will.

Why do people embrace God? In my opinion, belief in God and an afterlife is a necessary extension of man's need to feel that this life does not end with what we call death.

Steve Jobs doesn't use a Mac, and won't, because it's too crappy in his opinion.