The Nobel is a ticket to one's own funeral. No one has ever done anything after he got it.

It is never too late to be what you might have been.

Most of the trouble in the world is caused by people wanting to be important.

Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.

We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.

If we really want to pray we must first learn to listen, for in the silence of the heart God speaks.

I learn a great deal by merely observing you, and letting you talk as long as you please, and taking note of what you do not say.

Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?

Finding a way to live the simple life is one of life's supreme complications.

April is the cruelest month, breeding lilacs out of the dead land, mixing memory and desire, stirring dull roots with spring rain.

The journey, Not the destination matters.

Self-education is open to all but it is taken only by those who refuse to live a small and purposeless life.

Toronto as a city carries out the idea of Canada as a country. It is a calculated crime against the aspirations of the soul and the affection of the heart.

If all you've got to do is a couple of lines, dear Jesus, don't let them down. Other people are taking responsibility.

Music to me is something that I didn't choose; it was a necessity. I grew up with music, my father is a musician. It makes me happy; it makes people happy.

Writers are essential. Readers are essential. Publishers are not.

The angel within me thrives on the devil within me.

You have to know exactly what you want out of your career. If you want to be a star, you don't bother with other things.

The future will be owned and operated by the entrepreneurial ly minded.

Religious fundamentalism, even before it eliminates human beings by perpetrating horrendous killings, eliminates God himself, turning him into a mere ideological pretext.

I'm very proud to have joined with conservatives in both the Senate and the House to reform how we target bad guys.