Victory won't come to me unless I go to it; a grape tendril ties a knot in knots till knotted thirty times

As for butterflies, I can hardly conceive of one's attending upon you; but to question the congruence of the complement is vain, if it exists.

Poetry is the art of creating imaginary gardens with real toads.

Your thorns are the best part of you.

Any writer overwhelmingly honest about pleasing himself is almost sure to please others.

Originality is... a by-product of sincerity.

Camels are snobbish and sheep, unintelligent; water buffaloes, neurasthenic-- even murderous. Reindeer seem over-serious.

Omissions are not accidents.

The hands are the heart's messengers.

The passion for setting people right is in itself an afflictive disease.

When one cannot appraise out of one's own experience, the temptation to blunder is minimized, but even when one can, appraisal seems chiefly useful as appraisal of the appraiser.

I will now sing another song for your pleasure. Now, if you like Phil Collins...you should be shot in the head.

...music is the key to life

Prayer is a mighty ministry that any believer can have—anywhere, anytime, and in any circumstance.

If Iran does not take steps in the near future to live up to its obligations, then the United States will not continue to negotiate indefinitely... Our patience is not unlimited.

If you are lying in a tent in the Congo jungle, you don't want to be reading about rainforest biology. You want to be in a distant world.

Other men it is said have seen angels, but I have seen thee and thou art enough.

A stranger may easily detect what is strange to the oldest inhabitant, for the strange is his province.

Where shall we see a better daughter, or a kinder sister, or a truer friend?

In other words, an instrument should be an extension of you; it's supposed to sound like you - the way you walk, the way you dress, you know.

Atheism: the religion devoted to the worship of one's own smug sense of superiority.