For poets the wages of sin are poverty.

How can I stand on the ground every day and not feel its power? How can I live my life stepping on this stuff and not wonder at it?

Patience is the mother of joy.

We spend our lives hurrying away from the real, as though it were deadly to us. It must be somewhere up there on the horizon, we think. And all the time it is in the soil, right beneath our feet.

When someone offers you lines like that, he must be Mephistopheles and you must be Faust. You know you shouldn't succumb to such language, but you succumb.

Fast can be good. Except when moving so fast and getting so far ahead of ourselves we no longer can recognize our mode of transportation or the wall we’ve hit prior to creating it.

Let's have the Union restored as it was, if we can; but if we can't, I'm in favor of the Union as it wasn't.

There has never been anything but the Self. There is no world, there is no time, there is no place, there is no condition. There is nothing and there can be nothing else.

I never initiated nor did the FBI ever initiate any conversation or correspondence with me.

In addition the bill would expand an existing law "conscience clause" that protects physician training programs that refuse to provide training for abortion procedures.

I deplore my shortcomings, but plan to keep them.

I was always making things. Even though art was what I did every day, it didn't even occur to me that I would be an artist.

The difference between Talent and Genius is that Talent says things which he has never heard but once, and Genius things which he has never heard.

You don't think the losing is ever going to end, but when it does end, you get to enjoy it and keep working with it and keep getting it better, and that's where we are.

I do not like sports, unless you consider treating all humankind with love and respect a sport.