You know one of the causes of modern despair is the fact that we have had proposed to us, from various quarters, an impossible perfection.

If you spend your whole life waiting for the storm, you'll never enjoy the sunshine.

Once you accept the existence of God - however you define him, however you explain your relationship to him - then you are caught forever with his presence in the center of all things.

Man is a creature who walks in two worlds and traces upon the walls of his cave the wonders and the nightmare experiences of his spiritual pilgrimage.

None of us is guaranteed against failure or corruption of any kind; witness what's going on in the world in this moment, the follies of human nature and the failures of human nature.

All institutions are prone to corruption and to the vices of their members.

If God be God and man a creature made in image of the divine intelligence, his noblest function is the search for truth.

The fact is that the learning process goes on, and so long as the voices are not stilled and the singers go on singing some of it gets through.

There are still things I want to do but they're not necessary for me to do. I'm not clinging to anything that I can't open my hands and let go.

He had fallen into the error of all liberals: the belief that men are prepared to reform themselves, that good will attracts good will, that truth has leavening virtue of its own.

There was no cure for the human condition because every man read the present and plotted the future in the light of his own past.

I don’t think writers compete, I think they’re all doing separate things in their own style.

...Things happenedwhen you were little. Things youdon't remember now, and don't wantto. But they need to escape, need to worm their way outof that dark place in your brainwhere you keep them stashed.

This is a war universe. War all the time. That is its nature. There may be other universes based on all sorts of other principles, but ours seems to be based on war and games.

We should not be scrimping on investments in public safety. The lack of infrastructure spending is costing us lives in America. It's costing every commuter.

If there were a rehab for curiosity; I'd be in it.

If the poet can no longer speak for society, but only for himself, then we are at the last ditch.

America has abandoned the strong woman of spirituality and is shacking up with the harlot of materialism.

I love a man in a suit. Men should stay clothed, even if they have nice bodies.

Birds evolved from a small raptor like theropod.

Changing a habit is hard work. But it's harder to find work that would be more fulfilling