After all, what is every man? A horde of ghosts - like a Chinese nest of boxes - oaks that were acorns that were oaks. Death lies behind us, not in front - in our ancestors, back and back until.

All but blind In his chambered hole Gropes for worms The four-clawed Mole.

All day long the door of the sub-conscious remains just ajar; we slip through to the other side, and return again, as easily and secretly as a cat.

A harvest mouse goes scampering by, With silver claws and silver eye; And moveless fish in the water gleam, By silver reeds in a silver stream.

Once a man strays out of the common herd, he's more likely to meet wolves in the thickets than angels.

What a haunting, inescapable riddle life was.

And some win peace who spend The skill of words to sweeten despair Of finding consolation where Life has but one dark end.

A lost but happy dream may shed its light upon our waking hours, and the whole day may be infected with the gloom of a dreary or sorrowful one; yet of neither may we be able to recover a trace.

An hour's terror is better than a lifetime of timidity.

For beauty with sorrow Is a burden hard to be borne: The evening light on the foam, and the swans, there; That music, remote, forlorn.

Slowly, silently, now the moon Walks the night in her silver shoon.

I never knew the wonders of nature, until I began to walk with nature.

Even if there were no ear for them but the void, our prayers would still be the only things that sanctify our existence.

The true hero trains himself in silence.

...freedom of conscience does not mean being uncontrolled - we have to control ourselves and at times submit to others...

Courage is the ladder on which all other virtues mount.

I've always been really active. I grew up playing sports, so I'm always shooting hoops or throwing the football with my friends. I'm super-active in that sense.

There are no big problems, there are just a lot of little problems.

The expression "from above" is for us only a way of speaking. Many receive from above the command for action - we call it intuition.

No other President ever enjoyed the Presidency as I did.

I don't get to live by different rules. The same boundaries that apply to everyone apply to me.