We tend to become like those whom we admire.

We must develop the capacity to see men not as they are at present but as they may become.

We always love those who admire us; we do not always love those whom we admire.

Should doubt knock at your doorway, just say to those skeptical, disturbing, rebellious thoughts, I propose to stay with my faith, with the faith of my people.

The spirit of Christmas is the spirit of love and of generosity and of goodness. It illuminates the picture window of the soul, and we look out upon the world's busy life and become more interested in people than in things.

The writers we tend to universally admire, like Beckett, or Kafka, or TS Eliot, are not very prolific.