The future author is one who discovers that language, the exploration and manipulation of the resources of language, will serve him in winning through to his way.

When you're safe at home you wish you were having an adventure; when you're having an adventure you wish you were safe at home.

Providence has nothing good or high in store for one who does not resolutely aim at something high or good. A purpose is the eternal condition of success.

There's nothing like eavesdropping to show you that the world outside your head is different from the world inside your head.

Though everything else may appear shallow and repulsive, even the smallest task in music is so absorbing, and carries us so far away from town, country, earth, and all worldly things, that it is truly a blessed gift of God.

It's the perfect environment for prayer. Chanting in Greek... is like a beautiful opera, but way better.

I do not believe that God has created us under this dire necessity to toil, like beasts, to sustain life. I believe it is his will that we should hold absolute mastery over time, so as to devote it mainly to intellectual and moral improvement, domestic enjoyment, and social intercourse.

It's been a constant struggle with my athletic career to identify myself as a child of God and understand that His love is unconditional for us; it's not conditional like fans, or coaches, or even myself.