Wit and judgment often are at strife.

The greatest magnifying glasses in the world are a man's own eyes when they look upon his own person.

Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.

A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.

In faith and hope the world will disagree, but all mankind's concern is charity.

To err is human; to forgive, divine.

Teach me to feel another's woe, to hide the fault I see, that mercy I to others show, that mercy show to me.

The best way to prove the clearness of our mind, is by showing its faults; as when a stream discovers the dirt at the bottom, it convinces us of the transparency and purity of the water.

Chiefs who no more in bloody fights engage, But wise through time, and narrative with age, In summer-days like grasshoppers rejoice - A bloodless race, that send a feeble voice.

While pensive poets painful vigils keep, Sleepless themselves, to give their readers sleep.

See! From the brake the whirring pheasant springs, And mounts exulting on triumphant wings; Short is his joy! He feels the fiery wound, Flutters in blood, and panting beats the ground.

Happiness ... leads none of us by the same route.

... every writer I had ever known wrote his best work when he had his back up against the wall and thought he would never write another word.

It's cold and it's mean spirited and I don't like it here anymore.

We have no hope and yet we live in longing.

People can have all the expectations that they want, but I know that you never know what's going to happen in life. Everything is part of the journey.

I need yoga every single day.

Find the most puzzling kind of art you can think of, and then go out and try to approximate it with your camera. Take a photograph that corresponds to it. (Assignment to students.)

Someone once noted that a 'gaffe' in Washington is when a politician accidentally tells the truth.

During one of my early seminars, there were a bunch of seminar junkies there.

Well, well, Henry James is pretty good, though he is of the nineteenth century, and that glaringly.