My poems are political in the deeper sense of the word. Political means to live in your time, to be a man of your time.

Jerusalem is a port city on the shore of eternity.

From the place where we are right, flowers will not grow in the spring.

The soul inside me is the last foreign language I'm learning.

Love is like a reservoir of kindness and pleasure, like silos and pools during a siege.

Behind all this, some great happiness is hiding.

And as we stray further from love, we multiply the words. Had we remained together we could have become a silence.

There are two languages: one as things seem to us and the other of knowledge.

It was not an adventure; it was my life.

I think the end is endless. It's either a big black hole or a big white light or both together. But it's totally meaningless, because even if someone would explain it, I wouldn't understand it.

Every intelligent person, whether hes an artist or not - a mathematician, a doctor, a scientist - possesses a poetic way of seeing and describing the world.

Everything is true, ' he said. 'Everything anybody has ever thought.''Will you be all right?''I'll be all right, ' he said, and thought, And I'm going to die. Both those are true, too.

If you wear a big smile on your face and a really nice shoes on your feet, chances are that most people will like you.

Your attitude in your storm determines how long you are in it

Where there is no mathematics, there is no freedom.

The purposes of God point to one simple end-that we should be as he is, think the same thoughts, mean the same things, possess the same blessedness.

Yes, disappointment over perceived unfairness, injustice, promises not kept, tends to go hand in hand with increasing prosperity. Expectations are dashed. What can I say!

We are Christians by the same title as we are natives of Perigord or Germany.

The more we love our friends, the less we flatter them; it is by excusing nothing that pure love shows itself.

We can constitutionally extirpate slavery at this time.

With the parties at virtual parity and the ideological gulf between them never greater, the stakes of majority control of Congress are extremely high.