The poet reminds men of their uniqueness and it is not necessary to possess the ultimate definition of this uniqueness. Even to speculate is a gain.

Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.

People are never more insecure than when they become obsessed with their fears at the expense of their dreams.

Respect for the fragility and importance of an individual life is still the mark of an educated man.

Laughter is a form of internal jogging. It moves your internal organs around. It enhances respiration. It is an igniter of great expectations.

Laughter is inner jogging.

If something comes to life in others because of you, then you have made an approach to immortality.

A library is the delivery room for the birth of ideas, a place where history comes to life.

Drugs are not always necessary. Belief in recovery always is.

Life is an adventure in forgiveness.

Where is the indignation about the fact that the US and USSR have thirty thousand pounds of destructive force for every human being in the world?

if we are wayfarers who want to return home, then we must see the world as a means of transportation (terestibus vel marinis vehiculis) and always remember to distinguish the means and ends.

What use would wings be to a man bound in iron fetters? They would only drive him to even greater despair.

I cannot forget the place that I come from. The Congo is much in need.

The greater the suffering depicted, the more terrible the events, the more intense our pleasure.

The value of books is proportionate to what may be called their plasticity -- their quality of being all things to all men, of being diversely moulded by the impact of fresh forms of thought.

There is a nick in Fortune's restless wheel For each man's good.

The trials of life will not wait for us. They come at their own time, not caring much to inquire how ready we may be to meet them.

My 12 years in New York were very, very special, the fans were very special, and it's something I will take with me wherever I go and into retirement.

The reason that the unions and the other stakeholders have not cut a deal with the automakers is because they believe the federal government is going to bail them out.

The more you see your own flaws and sins, the more precious, electrifying, and amazing God’s grace appears to you.