No art form points like poetry to this originality of language as to its essential and abiding concern.

Great speeches have always had great soundbites. The problem now is that the young technicians who put together speeches are paying attention only to the soundbite, not to the text as a whole, not realizing that all great soundbites happen by accident, which is to say, all great soundbites are yielded up inevitably, as part of the natural expression of the text. They are part of the tapestry, they aren't a little flower somebody sewed on.

Peggy Noonan

Revived in this country the long forgotten beauties of Gothic architecture.

James Wyatt

The more upset a person is with other people, and with circumstances, and the more satisfied he is with himself, the further he is from wisdom.

Leo Tolstoy

Airs of importance are the credentials of impotence.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

Of course, I quiet agree that the Christian religion is, in the long run, a thing of unspeakable discomfort. But it does not begin in comfort; it begins in the dismay and it is no use at all trying to go on to that comfort without first going through that dismay. In religion, as in war and everything else, comfort is one thing you cannot get looking for it. If you look for the truth, you may find comfort in the end: if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth-only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin with and the in the end, despair.

C.S. Lewis

As one may bring himself to believe almost anything he is inclined to believe, it makes all the difference whether we begin or end with the inquiry, What is truth?

Richard Whately

Sometimes our lives can change so fast that the change outpaces our minds and hearts.

Cassandra Clare

Like what you do, and then you will do your best.

Katherine Johnson

The Colonel ran ahead of me, gleeful at his ejection, and I jogged after him, trailing in his wake. I wanted to be one of those people who have streaks to maintain, who scorch the ground with their intensity. But for now, at least I knew such people, and they needed me, just like comets need tails.

John Green

Fiction was invented the day Jonas arrived home and told his wife that he was three days late because he had been swallowed by a whale.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

In the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make.

Paul McCartney

If you don't understand the details of your business you are going to fail.

Jeff Bezos