At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard the past.

It is not from reason that justice springs, but goodness is born of wisdom.

We are never the same with others as when we are alone. We are different, even when we are in the dark with them.

When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.

Constantly risking absurdity and death whenever he performs above the heads of his audience, the poet, like an acrobat, climbs on rhyme to a high wire of his own making.

I grew up in Winnipeg, in the Canadian midwest, the fifth child. It was a great household to grow up in - I was loved to sweet death.

Death is an endless night so awful to contemplate that it can make us love life and value it with such passion that it may be the ultimate cause of all joy and all art.

We never had anybody who froze to death playing football. You probably had somebody who died from heat stroke playing football.