The altar must be built in one place so that the fire may come down in another place.

Many promising reconciliations have broken down because while both parties come prepared to forgive, neither party come prepared to be forgiven.

The strong hands of God twisted the crown of thorns into a crown of glory; and in such hands we are safe.

Unless devotion is given to the thing which must prove false in the end, the thing that is true in the end cannot enter.

Play and pray; but on the whole do not pray when you are playing and do not play when you are praying.

I think in order to move forward into the future, you need to know where you've been

An hour's conversation on literature between two ardent minds with a common devotion to a neglected poet is a miraculous road to intimacy.

To forgive and to be forgiven are the two points of holy magnificence and holy modesty; round these two centres the whole doctrine of largesse revolves.

It is as pleasant as it is unusual to see thoroughly good people getting their deserts.

It may be a movement towards becoming like little children to admit that we are generally nothing else.

Love was even more mathematical than poetry. It was the pure mathematics of the spirit.

Confront your fears. Find their root. Educate yourself. Reach out for help. Defeat your fears or they will defeat you. Never give up.

There are times when a sports figure doesn't deserve sympathy.

I've worked with some people that just spent hours and hours and hours in the mirror, and just so much importance is based on that. And I do find that sad.

I went on inactive duty in August 1945, and since I had stayed in such good shape and had played ball on military teams, I was ready to start for the Indians just two days later, against the Tigers.

I am fascinated with criminal law because it is as rigorous as a poem and because it is based on what has been written down even before one has committed a crime.

Would Time but await the close of our favorite follies, we should all be young men, all of us, and until Doom's Day.

Be good at something. It makes you valuable.

Your ideas dry up sometimes, and you get lazy sometimes 'cause you're around the same people. That was the good thing about having different directors. You had to stay on your toes.

And Communist Russia was so bad because they followed their people, they snooped on them, they arrested them, they put them in secret prisons, they disappeared them.