Now my belly is as noble as my heart.

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.

A book series is never truly over. The story lives on, even when the final page has been turned.

If you don't lose first you are not entitled to win.

We are no longer worried that children are missing school because of video games, though. We are worried that they are murdering their classmates because of video games.

You don't know yourself.

Onassis told me. He begged me to come to the wedding.

I'm so shy now I wear sunglasses everywhere I go.

Foreign countries should impose sanctions against Putin's corrupt network.

When the economy is still struggling, putting people back to work, finding ways to spur economic activity, ultimately can help to reduce the structural deficits and debts that countries experience.

Boredom and restlessness are deeply related. Whenever you feel boredom, then you feel restlessness. Restlessness is a by-product of boredom.

Love is one of those things that should be so simple. You don't need to think about it and over analyze it when it's good.