The breath of the mind is attention 128

The paper is patient, but the reader is not.

Everything has its poetry. 94

It is not my words that I polish, but my ideas. 102

Tenderness is the repose of passion.

Those for whom the world is not enough: saints, conquerors, poets, and all lovers of books.

Through memory we travel against time, through forgetfulness we follow its course.

But groundless hope, like unconditional love, is the only kind worth having.

Once my hand has drawn something my eye has observed, I know it by heart, and I can draw it again without a model.

I had advocated the establishment of a Negro industrial commission. I had gestured against the growth of monopoly power. I had introduced a few civil rights bills.

Mistakes are nothing to be ashamed of.

Idleness, indifference and irresponsibility are healthy responses to absurd work.

Don't be like me. Look at me: monogamous, in shape, no debt, sober... I'm dead inside.

I bear you my witness that the Savior is closer to us than you have any idea. He will be close to you and the powers divine will be at your side when you have nowhere else to turn.

It helps, I think, to consider ourselves on a very long journey: the main thing is to keep to the faith, to endure, to help each other when we stumble or tire, to weep and press on.

I was more of a weightlifter.

Let your face speak what's in your heart.