Who needs action when you got words?
It is enough for the evil people to succeed, for the good people to do nothing.
Tomorrow at 7, I shall be shot; but I am innocent of the crime of rebellion. I am going to die with a tranquil conscience.
Man is multiplied by the number of languages he possesses and speaks.
I believe in revelation, but not in revelation which each religion claims to possess. . . but in the living revelation which surrounds us on every side - mighty, eternal, unceasing, incorruptible, clear, distinct, universal as is the being from whom it proceeds, in that revelation which speaks to us and penetrates us from the moment we are born until we die.
The appetite is sharpened by the first bites.
God has made man a cosmopolite. He created seas for ships to glide on, the wind to push them, and the stars to guide them even in darkest night.
The poem is a confession of faith.
It is not what you say that matters but the manner in which you say it; there lies the secret of the ages.
Our biggest failure is our failure to see patterns.
If I were to make a list, I would include the interceptions, the sacks, the really painful losses. Those times when I've been down, when I've been kicked around, I hold on to those. In a way those are the best times I've ever had, because that's when I've found out who I am. And what I want to be.