The greatest poem ever known Is one all poets have outgrown: The poetry, innate, untold, Of being only four years old.

There is indeed a heaven on this earth, a heaven which we inhabit when we read a good book.

Lots of times you have to pretend to join a parade in which you're not really interested in order to get where you're going.

All students can learn.

Religion is an attempt, a noble attempt, to suggest in human terms more-than-human realities.

America is still a government of the naive, for the naive, and by the naive. He who does not know this, nor relish it, has no inkling of the nature of his country.

Only the sinner has the right to preach.