This world is good enough for me, if only I can be good enough for it.

Liberal hopefulness Regards death as a mere border to an improving picture.

Life involves maintaining oneself between contradictions that can't be solved by analysis.

The machinations of ambiguity are among the very roots of poetry.

Poetry contains nothing haphazard.

The heart of standing is that you cannot fly.

The central function of imaginative literature is to make you realize that other people act on moral convictions different from your own.

Law makes long spokes of the short stakes of men.

Twixt devil and deep sea, man hacks his caves; Birth, death; one, many; what is true, and seems; Earth's vast hot iron, cold space's empty waves.

Proust has listed a great many reasons why it is impossible to be happy, but, in the course of being happy, one finds it difficult to remember them.

The difficult part of good temper consists in forbearance, and accommodation to the ill-humors of others.

An unprejudiced mind is probably the rarest thing in the world; to nonprejudice I attach the greatest value.

One thing Arnold Schwarzenegger isn't is self-effacing. Everything has to be the biggest. His money, his muscles, his movies and his machines.

Having a little fun at my work does not make me any less of an artist and people who appreciate truly beautiful and original creations in pottery are not frightened by innocent tomfoolery!

It is an axiom nowadays that no bank fails for lack of capital; unprofitable lending is always the underlying cause.

If leadership is the act of going beyond what is ... it begins by going beyond what is within ourselves.

This is definitely a playoff team. There's no question about that. It's just a matter of how much we want it.

Universe will re-arrange itself accordingly.

Genes are a play within a play, not the interior monologue of the players.

But there's so many things in life like women, like children, like God and family that transcends the world of hip-hop.

Christ does not force our will, He only takes what we give Him. But He does not give Himself entirely until He sees that we yield ourselves entirely to Him.