T. S. Eliot
My greatest trouble is getting the curtain up and down.
Let's not be narrow, nasty, and negative.
The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality.
If you desire to drain to the dregs the fullest cup of scorn and hatred that a fellow human being can pour out for you, let a young mother hear you call dear baby 'it.'
In my beginning is my end.
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 bad poet is usually unconscious where he ought to be conscious, and conscious where he ought to be unconscious.
Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
The soul is so far from being a monad that we have not only to interpret other souls to ourself but to interpret ourself to ourself.
Our difficulties of the moment must always be dealt with somehow, but our permanent difficulties are difficulties of every moment.
Everyone gets the experience. Some get the lesson.Collection: Lessons
Most of the trouble in the world is caused by people wanting to be important.Collection: Pride
If we really want to pray we must first learn to listen, for in the silence of the heart God speaks.Collection: Heart
The journey, Not the destination matters.Collection: Journey
The tendency of liberals is to create bodies of men and women-of all classes-detached from tradition, alienated from religion, and susceptible to mass suggestion-mob rule. And a mob will be no less a mob if it is well fed, well clothed, well housed, and well disciplined.Collection: Men
Finding a way to live the simple life is one of life's supreme complications.Collection: Simple
Turn things you've always wanted to do, into things you've doneCollection: Done
We should not confuse information with knowledge.Collection: Information
To do the useful thing, to say the courageous thing, to contemplate the beautiful thing: that is enough for one man's life.Collection: Inspirational
Every end is a beginning...And every beginning is an end.Collection: Ends
If you do not push the boundaries, you will never know where they are.Collection: Boundaries
When the whole world is running headlong towards the precipice, one who walks in the opposite direction is looked at as being crazy.Collection: Running
I learn a great deal by merely observing you, and letting you talk as long as you please, and taking note of what you do not say.Collection: Long
Every moment is a fresh beginning.Collection: Inspirational
What is true, is true only for one time and only for one place.Collection: Action
Those who arrive at the end of the journey are not those who began.Collection: Journey
The darkness declares the glory of light.Collection: Light
We die to each other daily. What we know of other people is only our memory of the moments during which we knew them. And they have changed since then. To pretend that they and we are the same is a useful and convenient social convention which must sometimes be broken. We must also remember that at every meeting we are meeting a stranger.Collection: Relationship
If you haven’t the strength to impose your own terms upon life, then you must accept the terms it offers you.Collection: Inspirational
Humility is the most difficult of all virtues to achieve; nothing dies harder than the desire to think well of self.Collection: Philosophical
To make an end is to make a beginning.Collection: Ends
An election is coming. Universal peace is declared and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry.Collection: Life
Most of the evil in this world is done by people with good intentions.Collection: People
The very existence of libraries affords the best evidence that we may yet have hope for the future of manCollection: Hope
Sometimes things become possible if we want them bad enough.Collection: Inspirational
Only by acceptance of the past, can you alter itCollection: Letting Go
Distracted from distraction by distractionCollection: Social Media
Talent imitates, genius steals.Collection: Genius
There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.Collection: Inspirational
We had the experience, but we missed the meaning.Collection: Experience
We read many books, because we cannot know enough people.Collection: Book
Men live by forgetting and woman live on memories.Collection: Memories
Between the conception and the creation, between the emotion and the response, Falls the shadow.Collection: Fall
At the beach - time you enjoyed wasting, is not wasted.Collection: Beach
For us, there is only the trying. The rest is not our business.Collection: Work
The purpose of literature is to turn blood into ink.Collection: Blood