Sometimes, all you had to do was exist in order to be someone's saviour.

Okay - the world needs its cogs, all of them; and even a cog may say how it gets used. In fact, only a cog may determine its eventual meaning in the system. That's what I wanted to tell you.

It was his knowledge of his own willful stupidity that had brought on his irritation

It is your eyes that guide me home.

The best smell in the world is that man that you love.

Love is not found, love finds.

Leisure is the mother of philosophy.

One of the big things about space exploration is that it is as expensive as it is complicated, and you need all the countries of the world to help if you want to accomplish big goals.

Ignorance breeds antipathy. Until I got to know how computers worked, I didn't want anything to do with them. I said, 'Well, why do I need them? I write letters.' Which I still do.

A public expectation, it has to be said, not of poetry as such but of political positions variously approvable by mutually disapproving groups.

For through it all--above, beyond it all-- I know the far-sent message of the years, I feel the coming glory of the Light.

The dome of thought, the palace of the soul.

Every crime destroys more Edens than our own