"Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotions know what it means to want to escape from these things."

"For love would be love of the wrong thing there is yet faith, But the faith and the love and the hope are all in the waiting."

"Art never improves, but... the material of art is never quite the same."

"Where is all the knowledge we lost with information?"

"Even the most wretched individual of our present society could not exist and develop without the cumulative social efforts of countless generations."

"An hour spent in deep contemplation is worth a year of unguided wandering. For where clarity resides, peace inevitably follows."

"For the longest time, you just sound like a broken record, but you have to be consistent when teaching kids."

"We have a close, unshakable bond between the United States and Israel, and between the American and Israeli people. We share common values and a commitment to a democratic future for the world, and we are both committed to a two-state solution. But that doesn't mean that we're going to agree."