To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent - that is to triumph over old age.

A man is known by the company his mind keeps.

All the best sands of my life are somehow getting into the wrong end of the hourglass. If I could only reverse it! Were it in my power to do sowould I?

What is lovely never dies, but passes into other loveliness, Star-dust, or sea-foam, flower or winged air.

They fail, and they alone, who have not striven.

Civilization is the lamb's skin in which barbarism masquerades.

True art selects and paraphrases, but seldom gives a verbatim translation.

The possession of unlimited power will make a despot of almost any man. There is a possible Nero in the gentlest human creature that walks.

But I, in the chilling twilight stand and wait At the portcullis, at thy castle gate, Longing to see the charmed door of dreams Turn on its noiseless hinges, delicate sleep!

What probing deep Has ever solved the mystery of sleep?

Come watch with me the shaft of fire that glows in yonder West; the fair, frail palaces, The fading Alps and archipelagoes and great cloud continents of sunset-seas.

Speed eliminates all doubt. Am I smart enough? Will people like me? Do I really look all right in this plastic jumpsuit?

Simplicity clarity singleness: these are the attributes that give our lives power and vividness and joy.

A lot of dreams can turn to nightmares... if you don't really work them.

As far as types preferring other types, people of the same type can understand each others' perspective very well, but also drive each other crazy because they see their flaws magnified.

God gave the sea the danger and the abyss, but it was in it that He mirrored the sky.

I am all for titillating trivialities. I am all for the epic touch. I could almost say that everything in Time, should be either titillating or epic or starkly, supercurtly factual.

Marriage is indeed a maneuvering business.

We can't fire our way to Finland.

Praise is warming and desirable. But it is an earned thing. It has to be deserved, like a hug from a child.

I'm not a policy maker. I'm not even a very great activist. My main thing is to make things that speak for the culture that I live in.