Words become luminous when the poet's finger has passed over them its phosphorescence.

Words are like eyeglasses they blur everything that they do not make clear.

Monuments are the grappling-irons that bind one generation to another.

The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.

Without the spiritual world the material world is a disheartening enigma.

The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk.

A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.

We find little in a book but what we put there. But in great books, the mind finds room to put many things.

The evening of life brings with it its lamps.

He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet.

Close your eyes and you will see.

Daddy loved his son. Daddy believed his son walked on water. Daddy, Mike had long ago decided, was an idiot.

There is nothing left but the attempt and not trying is the same as failing.

If reality impacted directly on our senses and our consciousness, if we could have direct communication between the material world and ourselves, art would be unnecessary.

It's very difficult to censor anything anymore.

I would never deny that Jack Nicklaus is the greatest player who ever lived.

I've been careful to keep my life separate because it's important to me to have privacy and for my life not to be a marketing device for a movie or a TV show. I'm worth more than that.

A stable 21st century society requires 21st century solutions not 20th century economics

Milton, Madam, was a genius that could cut a Colossus from a rock; but could not carve heads upon cherry-stones.

There's no reason the Rangers can't get to the top.

Dear to me is my bonnie white steed; Oft has he helped me at pinch of need.