I'm happily married but it's absolutely heavenly.
Golf is a worrier's game, inward, concentrated, a matter of inches, invented by the same people who gave us Presbyterianism.
It's hell writing and it's hell not writing. The only tolerable state is having just written.
Take the time to write. You can do your life's work in half an hour a day.
Longing, we say, because desire is full of endless distances.
Do poets have any insight into what's the right ratio? I doubt it, but I think that they can be awake to what the ends are.
The birds are silent in the woods. Just wait: soon enough You will be quiet too
When allowed to return to the class, your feelings of humility and lonesomeness will render you a much finer student and person.
We don't mind having sanctions banning us from Europe. We are not Europeans.
Worthless is the charity of the man who bestows it unwillingly, because material charity is not his, but God's gift, while only the disposition of the heart belongs to the man. This is why many charities prove almost worthless, for they were bestowed unwillingly, grudgingly, without respect for the person of our neighbor. So also the hospitality of many persons proves worthless because of their hypocritical vain-glorious behavior to their guests. Let us offer our sacrifices upon the altar of love to our neighbor, with heart-felt affection: 'for God loves a cheerful giver'
Sherrod Brown and President Obama have lost the faith of Jewish Democrats.