The greatest amount of wasted time is the time not getting started.
Americans' great and secret fear is that America may turn out to be a phenomenon rather than a civilization.
It's nervous work. The state you need to write in is the state that others are paying large sums of money to get rid of.
Since the moment of the United Nations' inception, untold energies have been expended by governments not only toward the exclusion of persons of principle and distinction from the organization's leading positions, but toward the installation of men whose character and affiliations would as far as possible preclude any serious challenge to governmental sovereignty.
Poetry has been the longest pleasure of my life.
At first, there is something you expect of life. Later, there is what life expects of you. By the time you realize these are the same, it can be too late for expectations. What we are being, not what we are to be. They are the same thing.
It is the impulse of our century, with its nearly religious belief in magnitude, to fling an institution into every void.
The primary function of the creative use of language - in our age - is to try to constantly restore words to their meanings, to keep the living tissue of responsibility alive.
Being Puerto Rican, born and raised on the streets of New York, you go, 'Wow, you're still friends with your ex, man? Really? That's weird. ' I don't play that.
For a religious leader to question a person's faith is disgraceful. I'm proud to be a Christian, and as president, I will not allow Christianity to be consistently attacked and weakened, unlike what is happening now.
A photograph has picked up a fact of life, and that fact will live forever.