What happens when a hundred thousand people memorize the same poem? Does anything change?

I like to think of home as a verb, something we keep recreating.

The present is all we have, yet it is the one thing we will never learn to hold in our hands.

I wondered: what happens when a hundred thousand people memorize the same poem? Does anything change?

How does a copy become more than a copy? Is art the creation of something new and original, or simply the continuous enlargement, or the distillation, of an observation that came before

The only life that matters is in your mind. The only truth is the one that lives invisibly, that waits even after you close the book. Silence, too, is a kind of music. Silence will last.

The young man murmured in his sleep and said, “Dear Sparrow, ” and Sparrow felt, for the first time, how the purest joy could be a heaviness.

I know that throughout my life I have struggled to forgive my father. Now, as I get older, I wish most of all that he had been able to find a way to forgive himself.

If some people say what is in their hearts and other people say what glides easily off the tongue, how can we talk to one another?

I've got nothing to offer you kids but these noodles. They're good noodles but they won't change the world.

Intrigued by that enigma, he dug so deeply into her sentiments that in search of interest he found love, because by trying to make her love him he ended up falling in love with her.

Persuasion, kind, unassuming persuasion, should be adopted to influence the conduct of men. The opposite course would be a reversal of human nature, which is God's decree and can never be reversed.

All of these stories bounced around in my mind for a long time.

Relationships are the only thing that matter in business in life.

Remember that our nation's first great leaders were also our first great scholars.

I am here and you will know that I am the best and will hear me.

I have a dream... I have a dream today... And if America is to be a great nation this must become true.

The first thing to look out for after your first big success are drugs and screenplays.

Don't be so fast, you're all you've got.

There's no longer a monolithic evil empire somewhere, spreading a different philosophy of life. That doesn't exist.