Rome in the ages, dimmed with all her towers, / Floats in the mist, a little cloud at tether.

We talk of sunshine and moonshine, but not of cloud-shine, which is yet one of the illuminations of our skies. A shining cloud is one of the most majestic of all secondary lights.

Happiness is not a matter of events; it depends upon the tides of the mind.

There is nothing in the world more peaceful than apple - leaves with an early moon.

If there is a look of human eyes that tells of perpetual loneliness, so there is also the familiar look that is the sign of perpetual crowds.

The sense of humor has other things to do than to make itself conspicuous in the act of laughter.

Assuredly it would be a pity if laughter should ever become, like rhetoric and the arts, a habit.

My day-mind can endure / Upright, in hope, all it must undergo. / But O, afraid, unsure, / My night-mind waking lies too low, too low.

A child is beset with long traditions. And his infancy is so old, so old, that the mere adding of years in the life to follow will not seem to throw it further back -- it is already so far.

I come from nothing: but from where come the undying thoughts I bear?

Rich meanings of the prophet-Spring adorn, / Unseen, this colorless sky of folded showers, / And folded winds...

Knowledge may be terrible, but we can only prefer it to ignorance. Light may be terrible, but we can only prefer it to the dark.

Some kids look at me strange in the hallways because I don't decorate my locker, ...

Civility also requires relearning how to disagree without being disagreeable. Surely you can question my policies without questioning my faith or, for that matter, my citizenship.

I do catch myself driving around singing tunes, but I don't know if it's necessarily show tunes.

Lots of you know me as a lone, hard-bitten columnist, prone to lurking on deserted rocky promontories while searching for my muse.

In George Bush you get experience, and with me you get the future.

By listening, marketing will re-learn how to talk.

I think one of the best things you can do is write really sad songs that touch some semblance of... I guess 'hope' is the right word?

Mmm, he rumbled into my ear. I thought that being married meant that I never go to bed hungry.

Policymakers think that if they get the abstractions right, that will drive behavior in the desired direction. But the world happens in real time.