"A poem should not mean But be."

"Races didn't bother the Americans. They were something a lot better than any race. They were a People. They were the …"

"The dissenter is every human being at those moments of his life when he resigns momentarily from the herd and thinks …"

"It is not in the world of ideas that life is lived. Life is lived for better or worse in life, and to a man in life, …"

"What is more important in a library than anything else — is the fact that it exists."

"We are as great as our belief in human liberty — no greater. And our belief in human liberty is only ours when it is …"

"Conventional wisdom notwithstanding, there is no reason either in football or in poetry why the two should not meet i…"

"The business of the law is to make sense of the confusion of what we call human life—to reduce it to order but at the…"

"To see the earth as it truly is, small and blue and beautiful in that eternal silence where it floats, is to see ours…"

"Religion is at its best when it makes us ask hard questions of ourselves. It is at its worst when it deludes us into …"