things in this world are very roughly averaged; and although averaging is a useful, rapid way of dispatching business, it does undoubtedly waste a great deal which is too good for wasting.

What being at leisure means is more easily felt than defined.

The greatest pleasure of reading consists in re-reading.

There is no end to the deceits of the past.

Art is the expression of a man's life, of his mode of being, of his relations with the universe, since it is, in fact, man's inarticulate answer to the universe's unspoken message.

There is too little courtship in the world.

Leisure requires the evidence of our own feelings, because it is not so much a quality of time as a peculiar state of mind. ... What being at leisure means is more easily felt than defined.

A deal of the world's sound happiness is lost through Shyness.

Mankind may be divided into playgoers and not playgoers.

Some persons' letters seem almost framed to afford a series of alibis for their personality.

poets are privileged to utter more than they can always quite explain, bringing up from the mind's unplumbed depths tokens of the nature of the world we carry within us.

The Saviour is a life-giving light.

I always knew I was going to die in space.

We have come to accept bigger and bigger things as meaning greater and greater efficiency, more and more prosperity and more and more freedom. The two do not go together of necessity.

President George Bush declared a National Day of Prayer for Peace. This was after he had carefully arranged and started the war.

One does not grow old until he believes he has more to look back on than he has to look forward to.

On the road to truth, only those who do not know what tiredness and fear means reach the truth!

I like football. I like baseball. When the pitcher and the batter start fighting, that's the best.

It's a good thing we have gravity or else when birds died they'd just stay right up there. Hunters would be all confused.

I exist as I am, that is enough, If no other in the world be aware, I sit content, And if each and all be aware, I sit content.