A pleasure so exquisite as almost to amount to pain.

Green little vaulter, in the sunny grass, Catching your heart up at the feel of June, Sole noise that's heard amidst the lazy noon, When ev'n the bees lag at the summoning brass.

The groundwork of all happiness is health.

Stolen kisses are always sweetest.

We are slumberous poppies, Lords of Lethe downs, Some awake and some asleep, Sleeping in our crowns. What perchance our dreams may know, Let our serious may know.

The most tangible of all visible mysteries - fire.

Sympathizing and selfish people are alike, both given to tears.

Traveling in the company of those we love is home in motion.

Colors are the smiles of nature.

Patience and gentleness is power.

Music is the medicine of the breaking heart.

Sometimes the loudest things in the world are the things you can´t hear at all~

The humanity we all share is more important than the mental illnesses we may not

You don't want your jewelry to make you look fat. A lot of what's out there now does - you just wind up looking like a Christmas tree.

My family was my guide to my reality.

Freedom granted only when it is known beforehand that its effects will be beneficial is not freedom.

It baseball is an American institution and more lasting than some marriages, war, Supreme Court decisions and even major depressions

You have to look beyond race because as a human being you have to experience the person from the inside first

There is nothing which vanity does not desecrate.

I wouldn't say that the efforts of academics to critique the media's messages are "half-hearted." As far as I am aware, the efforts scarcely exist: very few even pay attention to the question.

I'm sometimes asked about my productivity, which I find a bit embarrassing to be honest. I don't really have a particularly interesting answer to this question.