Now I am nothing but a veil; all my body is a veil beneath which a child sleeps.

Many things can wait. Children cannot. Today their bones are being formed, their blood is being made, their senses are being developed. To them we cannot say "tomorrow." Their name is today.

You shall create beauty not to excite the senses but to give sustenance to the soul.

Love beauty it is the shadow of God on the universe

Speech is our second possession, after the soul-and perhaps we have no other possession in this world.

Love that stammers, that stutters, is apt to be the love that loves best.

What the soul is to the body, so is the artist to his people.

The poet is an untier of knots, and love without words is a knot, and it drowns.

There is the joy of being healthy and fair, but there is overall the beauty, the immense joy of being useful.

Let the earth look at me, and bless me, for now I am fecund and sacred, like the palms and the furrows.

I have all that I lost and I go carrying my childhood like a favorite flower that perfumes my hand.

I like to be lazy. I do like to be busy and really active, but when that's done, you can be sure I will be a lazy boy. I like to take time and relax and enjoy life.

The most important part of education is proper training in the nursery.

One should respect an honest person even if he expresses opinions differing from one's own.

The origins of disputes between philosophers is, that one class of them have undertaken to raise man by displaying his greatness, and the other to debase him by showing his miseries.

Sometimes I try my hand at turning out small profundities and uncertain short stories, but I always end up with just one single word: God.

I respond to the sound of London being spoken - to the sound of London.

I said, we should allow no Syrian refugees into the country, not even women or children.

There is sufficient reward in the mere consciousness of a good action.

I didn't spend money on nothin'. Besides my daughter, bucket hats, and weed.