Life is a game with many rules but no referee. One learns how to play it more by watching it than by consulting any book, including the holy book. Small wonder, then, that so many play dirty, that so few win, that so many lose.

An object, after all, is what makes infinity private.

No matter under what circumstances you leave it, home does not cease to be home. No matter how you lived there - well or poorly.

I'm neither Catholic not Protestant. Protestant sounds good but I don't think I am.

Robert Frost's triumph was not being at John Kennedy's inauguration ceremony, but the day when he put the last period on "West-Running Brook.

This is the generation whose first cry of life was the Hungarian uprising.

Were we to choose our leaders on the basis of their reading experience and not their political programs, there would be much less grief on earth. I believe ... that for someone who has read a lot of Dickens to shoot his like in the name of an idea is harder than for someone who has read no Dickens.