Space is the stature of God.

Words are like eyeglasses they blur everything that they do not make clear.

Monuments are the grappling-irons that bind one generation to another.

The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.

Without the spiritual world the material world is a disheartening enigma.

The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk.

A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.

We find little in a book but what we put there. But in great books, the mind finds room to put many things.

The evening of life brings with it its lamps.

He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet.

Close your eyes and you will see.

Big writers become a kind of shared climate.

Frankly, accepting the family's unique qualities has done wonders to help my own sanity.

All people—all lives—are either in a crisis, coming out of a crisis, or headed for a crisis.

thoughts are acrobats, agile and quite often untrustworthy.

[Jeffrey Lewis is] The best lyricist working in the US today.

I believe that when we love someone, we respect them, and we listen to them; we feel that their voice matters. And- we let them dictate the terms of who they are and what their story is.

Nothing so pretty to look at as my garden!

The thought that our lives are the source of other people's unhappiness, that's plain unbearable.

Most people who have told a lie think they got away with it … when in fact, they didn’t

We must be vigilant in our actions towards criminals, and innovative in our approach towards solving crime.