I swear to keep the dead upon my mind, / Disdain for all time to be overglad.

Do not desire to fit in. Desire to oblige yourselves to lead.

We don't ask a flower any special reason for its existence. We just look at it and are able to accept it as being something different from ourselves.

I believe we should all know each other, we human carriers of so many pleasurable differences. To not know is to doubt, to shrink from, sidestep or destroy.

Reading is important - read between the lines. Don't swallow everything.

We are each other's harvest; we are each other's business; we are each other's magnitude and bond.

Don't let anyone call you a minority if you're black or Hispanic or belong to some other ethnic group. You're not less than anybody else.

I think there are things for all of us to do as long as we're here and we're healthy.

Books are meat and medicine and flame and flight and flower steel, stitch, cloud and clout, and drumbeats on the air.

Truth-tellers are not always palatable. There is a preference for candy bars.

Exhaust the little moment. Soon it dies. And be it gash or gold it will not come again in this identical guise.

If a man cries in front of you, it doesn't mean he's weak. It means that he trusts you enough to let his guard down.

I had come across a few sports psychologists, and I had no time for nearly all of them. I just don't think they work in a team environment.

The greatest gift of life is friendship, and I have received it.

You have to keep evolving.

If we knew how much God loved us and was for us, we’d talk to Him all day long.

The Book of Revelation has all the authority, in these theological uplands, of military orders in time of war. The people turn to it for light upon all their problems, spiritual and secular.

Treat everyone with kindness, dignity, compassion and respect, irrespective of whether you think they understand or not.

it in every fair face, every fair sky, every fair flower.

I think it all goes down to who plays the better football on the night.

Read (this book), smile, enjoy, and if you happen to learn something along the way, don't get upset.