Lovers have lived so long with giants and elves, they won't believe again in their own size.

I'll love you till the ocean Is folded and hung up to dry And the seven stars go squawking Like geese about the sky.

Civilizations should be measured by the degree of diversity attained and the degree of unity retained.

If time were the wicked sheriff in a horse opera, I'd pay for riding lessons and take his gun away.

At first critics classified authors as Ancients, that is to say, Greek and Latin authors, and Moderns, that is to say, every post-Classical Author. Then they classified them by eras, the Augustans, the Victorians, etc., and now they classify them by decades, the writers of the '30's, '40's, etc. Very soon, it seems, they will be labeling authors, like automobiles, by the year.

Choice of attention - to pay attention to this and ignore that - is to the inner life what choice of action is to the outer. In both cases, a man is responsible for his choice and must accept the consequences, whatever they may be.

No person can be a great leader unless he takes genuine joy in the successes of those under him.