We spend our lives hurrying away from the real, as though it were deadly to us. It must be somewhere up there on the horizon, we think. And all the time it is in the soil, right beneath our feet.

How can I stand on the ground every day and not feel its power? How can I live my life stepping on this stuff and not wonder at it?

Patience is the mother of joy.

When someone offers you lines like that, he must be Mephistopheles and you must be Faust. You know you shouldn't succumb to such language, but you succumb.

For poets the wages of sin are poverty.

I want to need you.

I gotta look out for my band mates. - Tea

You just have to take control of your own performance.

All the forms of civil polity have been tried by mankind, except one, and that seems to have been reserved in Providence to be realized in America.

Life is so good, and it gets better every day.

I'm not real good at the administrative part of running a company.

The Romans knew it: quod me alit me extinguit, they said: That which nourishes me, extinguishes me.

Keenness of hearing revives when one is alone.

We believe that within five years, 96 percent of British consumers will have access to the Internet, whether it be through a personal computer, a set-top box or a mobile phone.

That is to say, Hillary Clinton is not, in my mind, a satisfying or calming alternative to Donald Trump.