Yet for my part, deeply as I am moved by the religious architecture of the Middle Ages, I cannot honestly say that I ever felt the slightest emotion in any modern Gothic church.
Where there are laws, he who has not broken them need not tremble.
Disgrace does not consist in the punishment, but in the crime.
Often the test of courage is not to die but to live.
Necessity inspires the fatal thought.
First thoughts are not always the best.
If ardent passions push not men on to lofty enterprise, calm wisdom never will accomplish it.
Post 911, we've seen such disastrous policies on the border. I live two and a half hours away from the border, and I've seen changes for the communities there. I feel like it's an occupied zone. We're losing our rights, and both sides of the border are terrified. The Mexican population and the U. S. population are united in fear.
I do have a very conscious desire not to be academic. I'm antiacademic. I hate jargon. I hate that sort of pretension. I am a person who [commits] breaches of decorum - not in private life, but in my work. They are part of my mode of operation. That kind of playfulness is part of my nature in general. The paradox that, in a way, to take something very seriously, you can't always be serious about it.
There comes a period of the imagination to each--a later youth--the power of beauty, the power of looks, of poetry.
There will be difficulties to face on the way to being successful. You can weather the storms.