All art is the tension, expressed between the uncontainable and its one perfect inevitable form.
No ornament of a house can compare with books; they are constant company in a room, even when you are not reading them.
Praise is sunshine; it warms, it inspires, it promotes growth; blame and rebuke are rain and hail; they beat down and bedraggle, even though they may at times be necessary.
Strange, what brings these past things so vividly back to us, sometimes!
My vocation to preach on paper.
It is one mark of a superior mind to understand and be influenced by the superiority of others.
Fanaticism is governed by imagination rather than judgment.
To build a theory of international relations on accidents of geography and history is dangerous.
God does not reveal himself in strength or power, but in the weakness and fragility of a newborn babe.
I think I'm a focus for international attention.
I spent a lot of time at the New York Public Library, the main branch. I was one of those people. If you ever spend a good amount of time there, you realize there are people who spend the entire day there. They're bookish homeless people.