"How wild it was, to let it be."
- T. S. Eliot
"We understand the ordinary business of living, We know how to work the machine"
"You are not here to verify,instruct yourself, or inform curiosityor carry report. You are here to kneelwhere prayer has been valid. And prayer is more than an order of words, the conscious occupation ..."
"A toothache, or a violent passion, is not necessarily diminished by our knowledge of its causes, its character, its importance or insignificance."
"It is not necessarily those lands which are the most fertile or most favored in climate that seem to me the happiest but those in which a long struggle of adaptation between man and his environment h..."
"A play should give you something to think about. When I see a play and understand it the first time then I know it can't be much good."
"The difference between being an elder statesman And posing successfully as an elder statesman Is practically negligible."
"The young feel tired at the end of an action The old at the beginning."
"In the last few years everything I'd done up to sixty or so has seemed very childish."
"You have now learned to see That cats are much like you and me And other people whom we find Possessed of various types of mind."