Art is the expression of the conviction that we can have a rational relationship with the world and each other. It isn't the faith or hope that we can, it is the demonstration that we can.
Business today consists in persuading crowds.
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.
Most of the trouble in the world is caused by people wanting to be important.
April is the cruelest month, breeding lilacs out of the dead land, mixing memory and desire, stirring dull roots with spring rain.
If we really want to pray we must first learn to listen, for in the silence of the heart God speaks.
I never commit to memory anything that can easily be looked up in a book
Without a doubt, rowing is the hardest thing you can attempt to learn in a short period of time.
Oh, well, faint heart never won so much as a scrap of paper
We die only once, and for such a long time.