We call it "Nature"; only reluctantly admitting ourselves to be "Nature" too.

You have come to the shore. There are no instructions.

Both art and faith are dependent on imagination; both are ventures into the unknown.

I'm not very good at praying, but what I experience when I'm writing a poem is close to prayer.

Nothing we do has the quickness, the sureness, the deep intelligence living at peace would have.

It's when we face for a moment the worst our kind can do, and shudder to know the taint in our own selves, that awe cracks the mind's shell and enters the heart.

Grief is a hole you walk around in the daytime and at night you fall into it.

In certain ways writing is a form of prayer.

Marvelous Truth, confront us at every turn, in every guise.

One of the obligations of the writer is to say or sing all that he or she can, to deal with as much of the world as becomes possible to him or her in language.

But for us the road unfurls itself, we don't stop walking, we know there is far to go.

Great is the person who does good always, in sickness and in health, in riches and in poverty.

I am searching for that which every man seeks-peace and rest.

I'm not bothered by the paparazzi and I don't feel hemmed in, I've never felt that. My youth, mind you, there wasn't quite the same attention to celebrities as there is now, but I've never felt that.

What kind of man can name a child Moon Unit?

Love taught me that your honour did but jest.

I'm not interested in one label or the other - I'm only interested in solving certain problems, in getting where I want to go.

The express authority of the people alone could give validity to the Constitution.

Successful people spend 10% of their time focused on the problems and 90% of the rest, focused on the solution.

Men are in numberless instances qualified for certain things, for no other reason than because they are qualified for nothing else.

Too many men slip early out of the habit of studious reading, and yet that is essential.