I am not, in fact, a superhero. Just a humble, mild-mannered civil rights attorney.
Laughing, if loud, ends with a deep sigh; and all pleasures have a sting in the tail, though they carry beauty in the face.
God hath given to man a short time here upon earth, and yet upon this short time eternity depends.
It is impossible to make people understand their ignorance, for it requires knowledge to perceive it; and, therefore, he that can perceive it hath it not.
Marriage hath in it less of beauty but more of safety, than the single life; it hath more care, but less danger, it is more merry, and more sad; it is fuller of sorrows, and fuller of joys; it lies under more burdens, but it is supported by all the strengths of love and charity, and those burdens are delightful.
It is impossible for that man to despair who remembers that his Helper is omnipotent.
No man can hinder our private addresses to God; every man can build a chapel in his breast, himself the priest, his heart the sacrifice, and the earth he treads on, the altar.
Without the study of Samskrit one cannot become a true Indian and a true learned man.
It is the religious impulse which supplies the cohesive force which unifies a society and a culture. . . A society which has lost its religion becomes sooner or later a society which has lost its culture.
The heft of a life in the hands grows both lighter and weightier. Over time, my life has become more saturated with its shape and made-ness, while my poems have become more and more free. The first word of every poem might be "Yes. " The next words: "And then. "
. . . God's love is so real that He created you to prove it.