...do you actually think that how long a person grieves is a measure of how much they loved someone?

It was one thing to live in a world where death stood a distant figure, quite another to hold it in your hands.

Come morning, his memory would be of a night spent watching over them all. And each of them - dog and boy, mother and old man - would feel the same.

...in that dilated moment after sunset when the sky holds all the light...

Anything can happen. But almost always, just normal things happen and people have happy lives.

It was one of the many rules in the kennel, rules that didn't always make sense, or even seem important, until some situation drew the lesson out.

The mind of a man is his mastermasterpiece.

Let me burn out for God ... prayer is the great thing. Oh that I may be a man of prayer!

Some things become such a part of us that we forget them.

Mathematics exists solely for the honour of the human mind.

The more men you make free, the more freedom is strengthened, and the more men you give an interest in the welfare and safety of the State, the greater is the security of the State.

What takes us back to the past are the memories. What brings us forward is our dreams.

The power to prevent violence is a power that no police force seems to have anywhere in the United States.

Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy. Music is the electrical soil in which the spirit lives, thinks and invents.

I'll be with The Goat until the fall. Then I've been given three plays to look at and there have been a couple of films have come over the desk. I will probably not do either one of them.

Self-forgetfulness in creativity can lead to self-transcendence.