I have often wondered what it is an old building can do to you when you happen to know a little about things that went on long ago in that building.

Arithmetic is where the answer is right and everything is nice and you can look out of the window and see the blue sky - or the answer is wrong and you have to start over and try again and see how it comes out this time.

One of the greatest necessities in America is to discover creative solitude.

Poetry is the harnessing of the paradox of earth cradling life and then entombing it.

In democracy both a deep reverence and a sense of the comic are requisite.

Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.

Often I look back and see that I had been many kinds of a fool-and that I had been happy in being this or that kind of fool.