Sometimes a noble failure serves the world as faithfully as a distinguished success.

For a poet to depict a poet in poetry is a hazardous experiment; in regarding one's own trade a sense of humour and a little wholesome cynicism are not amiss.

Sometimes a noble failure serves the world as faithfully as does a distinguished success.

Browning's tragedies are tragedies without villains.

A professor must have a theory as a dog must have fleas.

We live less and less, and we learn more and more. Sensibility is surrendering to intelligence.

The appalling reality in American politics today is that, when ideology and money mix, truth is a mere inconvenience.

we wish to make rage into a fire that cooks things rather than a fire of conflagration.

I'm not so much a dragon slayer, more a dragon annoyer -- I'm a dragon irritater.

When people ask me what 'American Pie' means, I tell them it means I don't ever have to work again if I don't want to.

Ah, I don't do interviews, really.

It is a sad thing when you hear Christians with a groan in them. When I meet the groaner, I say in my heart, "God, move that man on into the place where he comprehends what Christianity is."

Lines have to smile. There have to be life, blood and heart in things you let go. They have to be human, warm and alive

Master the divine techniques of the Art of Peace and no enemy will dare to challenge you.