American writer 1803-1882 Play is our brain's favorite way of learning.

Look in the mirror. The face that pins you with its double gaze reveals a chastening secret.

Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet conjure up a childhood summer beside a lake in the mountains...

I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived just the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.

It began in mystery, and it will end in mystery, but what a savage and beautiful country lies in between.

I swear I will not dishonor my soul with hatred, but offer myself humbly as a guardian of nature, as a healer of misery, as a messenger of wonder, as an architect of peace.

Wonder is the heaviest element on the periodic table. Even a tiny fleck of it stops time.

No matter how politely one says it, we owe our existence to the farts of blue-green algae.

Words are such small things, like confetti in the brain, and yet they are color and clarify everything, they can stain the mind or warp the feelings.

The heart is a museum, filled with the exhibits of a lifetime's loves.

We live on the leash of our senses. There is no way in which to understand the world without first detecting it through the radar-net of our senses.

For what it's worth: it's never too late to be whoever you want to be. I hope you live a life you're proud of, and if you find you're not, I hope you have the strength to start over again.

Challenge who you can be, don't let fate control your future.

No one can replace Richard Wright. He was my musical partner and my friend.

Unix gives you just enough rope to hang yourself - and then a couple of more feet, just to be sure.

What takes us back to the past are the memories. What brings us forward is our dreams.

In South Carolina, Senator John Edwards won handily, fulfilling his promise to win every state he was born in.

I have always believed that hair is a very sure index of character.

Prayer is the means by which men communicate with God. Revelation is the means by which God communicates with men.

Let everyone turn himself around, and look at home, and he will find enough to do.

'Go ye' is as much a part of Christ's Gospel as 'Come unto Me.'