I use the terms "sky" and "earth" because as a human I cannot imagine those elements not being there. It is a way to give substance to nothingness.

Here's to another year and let's hope it's above ground.

People who are adept in healthy self-expression exercise front-end consideration before speaking.

You just don’t get it. The point I’m trying to make—the point you’re deliberately ignoring—is that tomorrow it might all go away. You have to do what you want and take what you want now.

The Lord is close to those whose hearts are breaking.

Remember civil and religious liberty always go together: if the foundation of the one be sapped, the other will fall of course.

It's not about the journey. It's about the people you meet.

The key that unlocks energy is desire. It's also the key to a long and interesting life. If we expect to create any drive, any real force within ourselves, we have to get excited.

Don’t look for new landscapes, use new eyes to see what is already there.

Divisions of the kind were fashionable at that time, and it was so easy to stifle one's need to help by deciding that help could neither be accepted nor understood.

By fancy's aid I see the lightning fly, And the hoarse thunder roll along the sky.