The wind shrieks, the wind grieves; It dashes the leaves on walls, it whirls then again; And the enormous sleeper vaguely and stupidly dreams And desires to stir, to resist a ghost of pain.

The hiss was now becoming a roar - the whole world was a vast moving screen of snow - but even now it said peace, it said remoteness, it said cold, it said sleep.

All lovely things will have an ending, all lovely things will fade and die; and youth, that's now so bravely spending, Will beg a penny by and by.

The wandering one, the inquisitive dreamer of dreams, the eternal asker of answers, stands in the street, and lifts his palms for the first cold ghost of rain.

[At a musical concert:] . . . the music's pure algebra of enchantment.

Forward into the untrodden! Courage, old man, and hold on to your umbrella!

My heart has become as hard as a city street, the horses trample upon it, it sings like iron, all day long and all night long they beat, they ring like the hooves of time.

I'm afraid I wasn't much of a student, but my casual reading was enormous.

O sweet clean earth, from whom the green blade cometh! When we are dead, my best beloved and I, close well above us, that we may rest forever, sending up grass and blossoms to the sky.

Music I heard with you was more than music, and bread I broke with you was more than bread. Now that I am without you, all is desolate; all that was once so beautiful is dead.

Separate we come, and separate we go, And this be it known, is all that we know.

Things worth telling - take time

You need the Spirit of the Lord to come mightily upon you. When He is in charge, your troubles are in trouble.

Carrie is my child, and I love her with every ounce of strength I possess.

You only get one chance of an England debut.

I'll give up my bad habits as soon as equally satisfying good habits become available.

I feel as if I'm in on a pass and am damn lucky to have whatever I have. It could all be taken away in a second.

The player who puts the ball through the hoop has ten hands.

That is probable which for the most part usually comes to pass, or which is a part of the ordinary beliefs of mankind.

Getting my library card was like citizenship; it was like American citizenship.

Learn continually - there's always "one more thing" to learn!