Silently as a dream the fabric rose; No sound of hammer or of saw was there.

Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.

I refuse to admit I'm more than fifty-two, even if that does make my sons illegitimate.

If little labour. little are our gaines: Man's fortunes are according to his paines.

Sometimes I'm asked by kids why I condemn marijuana when I haven't tried it. The greatest obstetricians in the world have never been pregnant.

Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics, I assure you that mine are greater.

If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don't write, because our culture has no use for it.

Optimist: a proponent of the doctrine that black is white.

They were stoned, they were sawn asunder, were tempted, were slain with the sword: they wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins; being destitute, afflicted, and tormented; they wandered in deserts, and in mountains, and in dens and caves of the earth.

You are within God. God is within you.

Anger is a great force. If you control it, it can be transmuted into a power which can move the whole world.

The great art in writing advertisements is the finding out a proper method to catch the reader's eye; without which a good thing may pass over unobserved, or be lost among commissions of bankrupt.

We are anxious when there is a dissonance between our "knowledge" and the perceivable facts. Since our "knowledge" is not to be doubted or questioned, it is the facts that have to be altered...

The secret of love is seeking variety in your life together, and never letting routine chords dull the melody of your romance. -Unknown love quote.

Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality.

Think that day lost whose descending sun Views from thy hand no noble action done.

Deep sighted in intelligence, Ideas, atoms, influences.

Those who talk of reading the Bible "as literature" sometimes mean, I think, reading it without attending to the main thing it is about; like reading Burke with no interest in politics, or reading the Aeneid with no interest in Rome... But there is a saner sense in which the Bible -- since it is, after all, literature -- cannot properly be read except as literature, and the different parts of it as the different sorts of literature they are. Most emphatically, the Psalms must be read as poems -- as lyrics, with all the licenses and all the formalities, the hyperboles, the emotional rather than logical connections, which are proper to lyric poetry... Otherwise we shall miss what is in them and think we see what is not.

The ox-eyes awful Juno.

Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value.