A blessed companion is a book--a book that, fitly chosen, is a lifelong friend...a book that, at a touch, pours its heart into your own.

The only athletic sport I ever mastered was backgammon.

Earth is here so kind, that just tickle her with a hoe and she laughs with a harvest.

After all there is something about a wedding-gown prettier than in any other gown in the world.

A man never so beautifully shows his own strength as when he respects a woman's softness.

He is one of those wise philanthropists who, in a time of famine, would vote for nothing but a supply of toothpicks.

A coquette is like a recruiting sergeant, always on the lookout for fresh victims.

Quality, not quantity, is my measure.

Marriage is like wine. It is not be properly judged until the second glass.

A man is in no danger so long as he talks his love; but to write it is to impale himself on his own pothooks.

Grumblers deserve to be operated upon surgically; their trouble is usually chronic.

Am I an old man who changed into a butterfly, or a butterfly who thinks he was once an old man?

...in that dilated moment after sunset when the sky holds all the light...

While a man desires a woman, His mind is boundAs closely as a calf to its mother.As you would pluck an autumn lily, Pluck the arrow of desire.

All the windy ways of men Are but dust that rises up, And is lightly laid again.

I love my cameras. I love contact sheets. I love the visceral thing of film and I'm not positive that I can replicate my lighting digitally. My assistants tell me I can, but, just stubborn I guess.

The right time is always right now.

I am a little boy but I am going to do something really big in times to come.

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If a man voluntarily allows himself to be crushed, he yields the oil of moral energy which sustains the world.

It isn't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.