When I was writing pretty poor poetry, this girl with midnight black hair told me to go on.

Our lives are like a candle in the wind.

I stayed away from mathematics not so much because I knew it would be hard work as because of the amount of time I knew it would take, hours spent in a field where I was not a natural.

There is a music for lonely hearts nearly always. If the music dies down there is a silence. Almost the same as the movement of music. To know silence perfectly is to know music.

After the sunset on the prairie, there are only the stars

Faith is indispensable, and the world at times does not seem to have quite enough of it. It can and has accomplished what seems to be the impossible. Wars have been started and men and nations lost for the lack of it. Faith starts from the individual and builds men and nations. America was built by and on the faith of our ancestors.

Poetry is a dance music measuring buck-and-wing follies along with the gravest and stateliest dead-marches.