A beaver does not, as legend would have it, know which direction the tree will fall when he cuts it, but counts on alacrity to make up for lack of engineering expertise.

When there is a river in your growing up, you probably always hear it

Dryness promotes the formation of flower buds...flowering is, after all, not an aesthetic contribution, but a survival mechanism.

Flies are the price we pay for summer.

The sky is a meadow of wildstar flowers.

Swim in the stream of beauty of love to reach the shores of life.

If talent without hard work was a dead-end street, talent with hard work could only be a highway.

Not the measure of words is necessary, but their meaning.

World history is a court of judgment.

I am working on three things: on being a prayerful person; on staying close to the handicapped; and on my writing. These are my constant concerns.

Pity costs nothing, and it ain't worth nothing.

If you want different, you have to think and act different.

I regret that I wasn't more successful with my marriages, but it is what it is.

Words of the jargon sound as if they said something higher than what they mean.

Many cherish the idea that a photograph is an exact presentment of nature, and accept without question the paradox that a photograph cannot lie. Actually there never was a more unmitigated liar.