Oh, hasten not this loving act, Rapture where self and not-self meet: My life has been the awaiting you, Your footfall was my own heart's beat.

Books have the same enemies as people: fire, humidity, animals, weather, and their own content.

Man's great misfortune is that he has no organ, no kind of eyelid or brake, to mask or block a thought, or all thought, when he wants to.

War: a massacre of people who don't know each other for the profit of people who know each other but don't massacre each other.

A poem is never finished, only abandoned.

Nothing beautiful can be summarized.

The universe is built on a plan the profound symmetry of which is somehow present in the inner structure of our intellect.

A great man is one who leaves others at a loss after he is gone.

Love is being stupid together.

The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.

Let us enrich ourselves with our mutual differences.

Most science fiction is based on our knowledge now and uses that to project the future.

Excellence is a continuous process and not an accident.

He is the Rock, His work is perfect: For all His ways are judgment: A God of truth and without iniquity, Just and right is He.

Sometimes letting things go is an act of far greater power than defending or hanging on.

I don’t believe in an art that is not born out of man’s need to open his heart.

The duty of a patriot is to protect his country from its government.

The older we get and the longer we labor in the Church the more there is that we can do. There is no need for any person in this Church to have an empty hand or an empty heart.

To go abroad has something of the same sense that death brings. I am no longer of ye-what ye say of me is now of no consequence.

A determined man, by his very attitude and the tone of his voice, puts a stop to defeat, and begins to conquer.

I love the intimacy of making movies. The focus is deeper and much more intense than musical theatre.