The thinker as reader reads what has been written. He wears the words he reads to look upon Within his being.

True villains are extremely photogenic.

All the great things have been denied and we live in an intricacy of new and local mythologies, political, economic, poetic, which are asserted with an ever-enlarging incoherence.

The day of the sun is like the day of a king. It is a promenade in the morning, a sitting on the throne at noon, a pageant in the evening.

The summer night is like a perfection of thought.

The imagination is one of the forces of nature.

Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

The most beautiful thing in the world is, of course, the world itself.

The way through the world is more difficult to find than the way beyond it.

I do not know which to prefer - The beauty of inflections Or the beauty of innuendoes, The blackbird whistling Or just after.

It is not everyday that the world arranges itself into a poem.

When you think your life is falling apart, it's usually falling together in disguise.

When an author is yet living we estimate his powers by his worst performance and when he is dead we rate them by his best.

Salvation happens every time someone with a key uses it to open a door he could lock instead.

I'm a pretty private person. I'm not "out there" out there. From living in New York City, I developed a certain awareness that you have to have when you live by yourself.

The natural life in each of us is something self-centred, something that wants to be petted and admired, to take advantage of other lives, to exploit the whole universe.

Cyber theft is the fastest growing crime in the United States by far.

When you're surrounded by people who share a passionate commitment around a common purpose, anything is possible.

It is the way of grace. People do not merit salvation but receive it as a free gift from God on the basis of what Christ's death accomplished.

Anything that's expanding the mind and heart is happiness. But it's not a goal.

All too often, the security of a mediocre present is more comfortable than the adventure of trying to be more in the future.