“Everything that has existed, lingers in the Eternity.”

It is a curious thought, but it is only when you see people looking ridiculous that you realize just how much you love them.

An appreciative listener is always stimulating.

Never go back to a place where you have been happy. Until you do it remains alive for you. If you go back it will be destroyed.

The truth, however ugly in itself, is always curious and beautiful to seekers after it.

Any woman can fool a man if she wants to and if he’s in love with her.

To count – really and truly to count – a woman must have goodness or brains.

Words are such uncertain things, they so often sound well but mean the opposite of what one thinks they do.

One is left with the horrible feeling now that war settles nothing; that to win a war is as disastrous as to lose one.

When the fact doesn’t meet the theory then let go the theory.

Courage is the resolution to face the unforeseen.

Dogs are wise. They crawl away into a quiet corner and lick their wounds and do not rejoin the world until they are whole once more.

It is really a hard life. Men will not be nice to you if you are not good-looking, and women will not be nice to you if you are.

It’s not a man’s working hours that are important–it’s his leisure hours. That’s the mistake we all make.

Be sure thy sin will find thee out.

To rush into explanations is always a sign of weakness.

Truth, however bitter, can be accepted, and woven into a design for living.

The quality of place, the reaction to immediate contact with earth and growing things that have a fugal relationship with mountains and sky, is essential to the integrity of our existence on this planet.

If an American was condemned to confine his activity to his own affairs, he would be robbed of one half of his existence.

As long as anti-gay legislation exists in any state, I strongly believe big events such as the Final Four and Super Bowl should not be held in those states’ cities.

A photograph is not an accident – is a concept. It exists at, or before, the moment of exposure of the negative.

A big difference exists between trying to manipulate God to give us what we want and cooperating with God so He can give us what He wants.

What’s really funny about being National Youth Poet Laureate is that not everyone even knows it exists.

I cannot conceive curved lines of force without the conditions of a physical existence in that intermediate space.

Wonder and humility are wholesome emotions and they do not exist side by side with a lust for destruction.