It is privilege of living to be acutely, agonizingly conscious of the moment that is always present and always passing.

The curse of the romantic is a greed for dreams, an intensity of expectation that, in the end, diminishes the reality.

Surely the hold of great music on the listener is precisely this: that the listener is made whole; and at the same time part of an image of infinite grace and grandeur which is creation.

It is a marvellous thing to be physically a woman if only to know the marvels of a man.

Republicans seems to me to be chiefly concerned with holding on to what they have: in society, it's position, or respectability, or what you will; in business, of course, it's profit.

You mix the affluence of the white and the poverty of the black and you do not get a civilized society. Integration on an equal level is one thing. Mixing on an unequal level is another.

The faucet leak, and learn to leave them so.