Things are not as we would like them to be. There is only one way to deal with it, namely to try and be all right oneself.

I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence but it comes from within. It is there all the time.

Creative minds have always been known to survive any kind of bad training.

If some longing goes unmet, don't be astonished. We call that Life.

The horrors of war, pale beside the loss of a mother

Who promised you that only for joy were you brought to this earth?

In our dreams we can have our eggs cooked exactly how we want them, but we can't eat them.

Why do we go around acting as though everything was friendship and reliability when basically everything everywhere is full of sudden hate and ugliness?

We are imprisoned in the realm of life, like a sailor on his tiny boat, on an infinite ocean.

Papa continually emphasizes how much remains unexplained. With the other psychoanalytic writers, everything is always so known and fixed.

Sometimes the most beautiful thing is precisely the one that comes unexpectedly and unearned, hence something given truly as a present.

Lacey-girl, books take you anywhere. Any place you want to go. You remember that always.

Hard work is what you do to make ends meet, easy work is getting others to do the hard work for you.

Isn't the smell of coffee the best alarm clock?

Smiles, tears, of all my life! - and, if God choose, I shall but love thee better after death.

I am on the side of pluralistic societies, and I will do whatever I can - by the best means available and any means necessary - to protect spaces that encourage open communication between people.

Somewhere back a whiskey or so ago I wrote that thinking was a real thing in the world, just like anything else. I mean that very literally, materially. And it's true about poems, too.

This post of President is a Constitutional post. It is the duty of everyone, all citizens to see that they respect the post... the institution of President.

Way out in the country tonight he could smell the pumpkins ripening toward the knife and the triangle eye and the singeing candle.

I enter myself in races. I did a triathlon, and I have done a marathon a couple of times.

Make your goal to do a tremendous amount to improve your audience's lives.