Tomorrow the world is not the same as today, though God listens with the same ear.

I fix what's broken - except in the heart.

Space plus whatever you feel equals more whatever you feel, marvelous for happiness, God save you otherwise.

We can't all be friends and relatives as the world is; most of us have to be strangers.

To any writer: Teach yourself to work in uncertainty. Many writers are anxious when they begin, or try something new. Even Matisse painted some of his Fauvist pictures in anxiety. Maybe that helped him to simplify. Character, discipline, negative capability count. Write, complete, revise. If it doesn't work, begin something else.

The past exudes legend: one can't make pure clay of time's mud.

You could not pity anything if you weren't a man; pity was a surprise to God. It was not his invention.