Permitted to inhabit neither the realm of the ideal nor the realm of the real, to be neither aspiration nor companion, beauty comes to us like a fugitive bird unable to fly, unable to land.

When we come upon beautiful things they act like small tears in the surface of the world that pull us through to some vaster space.

To misstate, or even merely understate, the relation of the universities to beauty is one kind of error that can be made. A university is among the precious things that can be destroyed.

How one walks through the world, the endless small adjustments of balance, is affected by the shifting weights of beautiful things.

Beauty always takes place in the particular, and if there are no particulars, the chances of seeing it go down

Beauty always takes place in the particular.

Beauty brings copies of itself into being.

A life of prayer is a praise of being.

I'm sure there are people who consider themselves Democrats, maybe even liberals, who are good Christians, but if so I do not think they understand the tenants of those two organizations.

I took a public speaking class in college and managed to make the class laugh a little bit.

Everytime you grab at love you will lose a snowflake of your memory

The flavor of wine is like delicate poetry.

I can tell it all in song: pathos, gladness, love, joy, unhappiness.

Younger adult smokers are the only source of replacement smokers If younger adults turn away from smoking, the industry must decline.

Social Networking that matters is helping people archive their goals. Doing it reliably and repeatability so that over time people have an interest in helping you achieve your goals.

If you’ve given a dollar, you are part of the Marathon of Hope .

Wealth is so concentrated that a large segment of society is virtually unaware of its existence.