The drama of light exists not only in what is in the light, but also in what is left dark. If the light is everywhere, the drama is gone.
Whatever you think matters - doesn't. Follow this rule, and you will add decades to your life.
Come September, children return to school, grownups to work, and the brain to the head.
My guess [is]. . . that the great majority of Americans are saying they favor gun control when they really mean gun banishment. . . . I think the country has long been ready to restrict the use of guns, except for hunting rifles and shotguns, and now I think we're prepared to get rid of the damned things entirely - the handguns, the semis and the automatics.
A library should be like a pair of open arms.
When you have the goods, you don't need to dress up what you're writing.
If you need three adjectives to describe something, then you've probably chosen the wrong something.
Man knows that the world is not made on a human scale; and he wishes that it were.
The Cosmos is all that is or was or ever will be. Our feeblest contemplations of the Cosmos stir us -- there is a tingling in the spine, a catch in the voice, a faint sensation, as if a distant memory, of falling from a height. We know we are approaching the greatest of mysteries.
And so, it's not a thing of how many carries, but were you effective when you did carry.
The intercourse between man and God reposes upon truths of another order than that of reason, upon a light different and more elevated than that which naturally enlightens created intelligences.