"Even when the bird walks we see that it has wings."

“Ivan Lendl is a robot, a solitary, mechanical man who lives with his dogs behind towering walls at his estate in Connecticut. A man who so badly wants to have a more human image that he's having surgery to remove the bolts from his neck.”

“Washington is the place where nobody believes a rumor until it has been officially denied.”

“The longest journey you'll ever make is the journey from the head to the heart”

“how seasonably leaf and blossom uncurl and living things arrange their death, while someone from afar off blows birthday candles for the world.”

Source : Irving Layton (1977). “The Selected Poems of Irving Layton”, p.12, New Directions Publishing

“When you are tough on yourself, life is going to be infinitely easier on you.”

“Many teachers think of children as immature adults. It might lead to better and more 'respectful' teaching, if we thought of adults as atrophied children.”

“I was living a life of a lie, I really was.”

“When I look at the cross, I learn to say: 'The Son of God loved me, and gave Himself for me' (Galatians 2:20). I begin to believe with Paul that if God did not spare His own Son, but gave Him up to the cross for me, then He loves me so much He will always give me only what will bring me blessing (Romans 8:32).”