A poet wants only one small stone on which to carve his life.

A man's health can be judged by which he takes two at a time: pills or stairs.

A small speckled visitor Wearing a crimson cape Brighter than a cherry Smaller than a grape A polka-dotted someone Walking on my wall A black-hooded lady In a scarlet shawl.

Adversity often activates a strength we did not know we had.

Love comes quietly... / but you know when it is there.

Friendship is like a rose. . . opening one petal at a time, only as it unfolds. . . day by day it reveals its true beauty.

The only educational aspect of television is that it puts the repair man's kids through college.

A brook can be a friend in a special way. It talks to you with splashy gurgles. It cools your toes and lets you sit quietly beside it when you don't feel like speaking.

Love comes quietly... but you know when it is there because suddenly... you are not alone anymore... and there is no sadness in you.

Like all good teachers, the world repeats her lesson. Over and over ...with wordless variety... She spells the name of Love.

The best way to help yourself is to help someone else.

While humans play God, dogs learn from their masters.

The all-seeing eye of God beheld our deplorable state; infinite pity touched the heart of the Father of mercies; and infinite wisdom laid the plan of our recovery.

A right without an attendant responsibility is as unreal as a sheet of paper which has only one side.

I found that the men and women who got to the top were those who did the jobs they had in hand, with everything they had of energy and enthusiasm and hard work.

I just can't - I can't exist in normal group situations. A classroom, where you have to sort of jockey for position, compete for attention - I would just withdraw.

With directing, you have to know what you're doing, but you have to actually be able to control what's going on.

[I talk politics with Ted Turner] quite often. Usually with a great deal of excitement, because he has one political view and I have another. Despite our politics,we've agreed to be friends.

The mother is the first teacher of the child. The message she gives that child, that child gives to the world.

The eyes like sentinel occupy the highest place in the body.

It's not a big secret that what's lacking and what's wrong in our society starts with education.