Religion is man's attempt to bind himself back to a relationship with God.

All human language draws its nature and value from the fact that it both comes from the Word of God and is chosen by God to manifest himself. But this relationship is secret and incomprehensible beyond the bounds of reason and analysis.

A lot of people over time have had this kind of pattern in their relationship with Bill Clinton. You first meet him and you're overwhelmed by his talent. He's so energetic and articulate and full of ideas and he calls himself a congenital optimist and that optimism is contagious.

No partner in a love relationship... should feel that he has to give up an essential part of himself to make it viable.

Every man sees in his relatives and especially in his cousins a series of grotesque caricatures of himself.

The good man is he who rules himself as he does his own property: his autonomous being is modelled on material power.

Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power.

Every man who knows how to read has it in his power to magnify himself to multiply the ways in which he exists to make his life full significant and interesting.

The power of man has grown in every sphere except over himself.

It is folly for a man to pray to the gods for that which he has the power to obtain by himself.

Vote: the instrument and symbol of a freeman's power to make a fool of himself and a wreck of his country.

A man's true state of power and riches is to be in himself.

It demonstrates to his simple mind in the most positive manner that we have no prejudice against him on account of his race and that while he behaves himself he will be treated the same as a white man.

By nominating Chuck Hagel to be his Defense secretary President Obama is putting forward an aloof contrarian who doesn't suffer fools - a striving politician who considers himself above politics.

That's a wonderful change that's taken place and so most poetry today is published if not directly by the person certainly by the enterprise of the poet himself working with his friends.

The poet exposes himself to the risk. All that has been said about poetry all that he has learned about poetry is only a partial assurance.

Journalism wishes to tell what it is that has happened everywhere as though the same things had happened for every man. Poetry wishes to say what it is like for any man to be himself in the presence of a particular occurrence as though only he were alone there.