Love me like a wrong turn on a bad road late at night.
The book trade is a spiritual barometer of a nations well-being.
The task of leadership is not to put greatness into people, but to elicit it, for the greatness is there already.
I believe that all wisdom consists in caring immensely for a few right things, and not caring a straw about the rest.
That is the supreme value of history. The study of it is the best guarantee against repeating it.
And where the deepest current crawls Like thistledown the dainty fly falls. Then from the depths a silver gleam Quick flashes, like a jewel bright. Up through the waters of the stream An instant visible to sight As lightning cleaves to sombre sky A rainbow rises to the fly.
There may be peace without joy, and joy without peace, but the two combined make happiness.
A walk in the woods can reveal many things, and it is a good time to practice transcendentalism. Look at a tree and realize it's not just a tree, its roots may go into the ground but it may also go into other worlds, other eternities.
It seemed weird calling a teenager 'sir' but I'd learned to be careful with immortals. They tended to get offended easily. Then, they blew stuff up.
Gospel artists are messengers; they are vessels of a message.
I have been able to watch the Clintons and The Clinton Foundation; Al Gore and what he did post-losing the whole Florida thing. There's a grand tradition of a lot of interesting stuff that happens to these post-presidents.