Embrace your solitude and love it. Endure the pain it causes, and try to sing out with it. For those near to you are distant.

First, I say that he draws near to those who make peace with him. For God is the One who brings about peace; and where else should peace dwell than in peace?

He [Hemingway] used a stand-up work place he had fashioned out of the top of of a bookcase near his bed. His portable typewriter was snugged in there and papers were spread along the top of the bookcase on either side of it. He used a reading board for longhand writing.

There are bullfighters who do it just for the money-they are worthless [said Hemingway]. The only one who matters is the bullfighter who feels it, so that if he did it for nothing, he would do it just as well. Same holds true for damn near everyone.

A Proper Tea is much nicer than a Very Nearly Tea, which is one you forget about afterwards.

Intelligence alone is not nearly enough when it comes to acting wisely.

No,” said the priest, “you don’t need to accept everything as true, you only have to accept it as necessary.” “Depressing view,” said K. “The lie made into the rule of the world.

Alone, even doing nothing, you do not waste your time. You do, almost always, in company. No encounter with yourself can be altogether sterile: Something necessarily emerges, even if only the hope of some day meeting yourself again.

Well, with so many space shuttle missions that we’ve done, I think it’s just sort of natural that each one hasn’t necessarily gotten the attention that the early ones did.

Professor Tyndall once said the finest inspiration he ever received was from an old man who could scarcely read. This man acted as his servant. Each morning the old man would knock on the door of the scientist and call, “Arise, Sir: it is near seven o’clock and you have great work to do today

It is always the nearest, plainest and simplest principles that learned men comprehend last.

Folks who never do any more than they get paid for, never get paid for any more than they do

For me Sir Alex was my father in football. He was crucial in my career and, outside football, was a great human being with me. Talent isn’t everything. You can have it from the cradle, but it is necessary to learn the trade to be the best.

Democracy cannot consist solely of elections that are nearly always fictitious and managed by rich landowners and professional politicians.

The free soul is rare, but you know it when you see it – basically because you feel good, very good, when you are near or with them.

I worry that, especially as the Millennium edges nearer, pseudo-science and superstition will seem year by year more tempting, the siren song of unreason more sonorous and attractive.

The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child

Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery

I am not the rose, but I have lived near the rose.

The time is near at hand which must determine whether Americans are to be free men or slaves.