A library, to modify the famous metaphor of Socrates, should be the delivery room for the birth of ideas - a place where history comes to life.

He who keeps his cool best wins.

Life is an adventure in forgiveness.

Your heaviest artillery will be your will to live. Keep that big gun going.

A library is the delivery room for the birth of ideas, a place where history comes to life.

It makes little difference how many university courses or degrees a person may own. If he cannot use words to move an idea from one point to another, his education is incomplete.

The main failure of education is that it has not prepared people to comprehend matters concerning human destiny.

Respect for the fragility and importance of an individual life is still the mark of an educated man.

Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.

The tragedy of life is in what dies inside a man while he lives - the death of genuine feeling, the death of inspired response, the awareness that makes it possible to feel the pain or the glory of other men in yourself.

It is reasonable to expect the doctor to recognize that science may not have all the answers to problems of health and healing.

People are never more insecure than when they become obsessed with their fears at the expense of their dreams.

The individual is capable of both great compassion and great indifference. He has it within his means to nourish the former and outgrow the latter.

Hearty laughter is a good way to jog internally without having to go outdoors.

History is a vast early warning system.

Wisdom consists of the anticipation of consequences.

We will not have peace by afterthought.

The eternal quest of the individual human being is to shatter his loneliness.

The human body experiences a powerful gravitational pull in the direction of hope. That is why the patient's hopes are the physician's secret weapon. They are the hidden ingredients in any prescription.

Hope is independent of the apparatus of logic.

The capacity for hope is the most significant fact of life. It provides human beings with a sense of destination and the energy to get started.

What was most significant about the lunar voyage was not that men set foot on the moon but that they set eye on the earth.

My reason nourishes my faith and my faith my reason.

The excellency of every art is its intensity, capable of making all disagreeable evaporate.

A thing of beauty is a joy forever: its loveliness increases; it will never pass into nothingness.

'Beauty is truth, truth beauty,' - that is all ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.

What the imagination seizes as beauty must be truth.

Praise or blame has but a momentary effect on the man whose love of beauty in the abstract makes him a severe critic on his own works.

There is not a fiercer hell than the failure in a great object.

Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced.

Love is my religion - I could die for it.

I have been astonished that men could die martyrs for religion - I have shuddered at it. I shudder no more - I could be martyred for my religion - Love is my religion - I could die for that.

I love you the more in that I believe you had liked me for my own sake and for nothing else.

Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.

I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections, and the truth of imagination.

I have two luxuries to brood over in my walks, your loveliness and the hour of my death. O that I could have possession of them both in the same minute.

Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?

Now a soft kiss - Aye, by that kiss, I vow an endless bliss.

I will give you a definition of a proud man: he is a man who has neither vanity nor wisdom one filled with hatreds cannot be vain, neither can he be wise.

There is nothing stable in the world; uproar's your only music.

Scenery is fine - but human nature is finer.

The poetry of the earth is never dead.

There is an electric fire in human nature tending to purify - so that among these human creatures there is continually some birth of new heroism. The pity is that we must wonder at it, as we should at finding a pearl in rubbish.

Poetry should... should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance.

Poetry should be great and unobtrusive, a thing which enters into one's soul, and does not startle it or amaze it with itself, but with its subject.

Poetry should surprise by a fine excess and not by singularity, it should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance.

My imagination is a monastery and I am its monk.

Friends are the siblings God never gave us.

Friendship is one mind in two bodies.

Friendship with a man is friendship with his virtue.