Solitude vivifies isolation kills.

God often visits us, but most of the time we are not at home.

When orators and auditors have the same prejudices, those prejudices run a great risk of being made to stand for incontestable truths.

Solitude vivifies, isolation kills.

Poetry is truth in its Sunday clothes.

Poetry is the exquisite expression of exquisite impressions.

A fine quotation is a diamond in the hand of a man of wit and a pebble in the hand of a fool.

There is a slowness in affairs which ripens them, and a slowness which rots them.

Nothing vivifies, and nothing kills, like the emotions.

I look at what I have not and think myself unhappy; others look at what I have and think me happy.

Conscientious men are, almost everywhere, less encouraged than tolerated.

In unremarkable texts we soon trip on phrases that penetrate into us, as if a sword has thrust up to its hilt inside us.

Beauty comes to us more readily on a full belly.

Most nights, someone ends up in our bed. The kids do knock before entering. We've at least got that part down because mommy and daddy need some space.

A better politics is one where we appeal to each other’s basic decency instead of our basest fears.

When we succeed, we succeed because of our individual initiative, but also because we do things together.

People give me such a hard time because I don't wear dresses. What's that got to do with anything?

Be a mirror, absorb everything around you and still remain the same

The earth says have a place, be what that place requires; hear the sound the birds imply and see as deep as ridges go behind each other.