Around the mighty master came The marvels which his pencil wrought, Those miracles of power whose fame Is wide as human thought.

For all sad words of tongue and pen, The saddest are these, 'It might have been'.

A little smile, a word of cheer, A bit of love from someone near, A little gift from one held dear, Best wishes for the coming year. These make a merry christmas!

Through this broad street, restless ever, ebbs and flows a human tide, wave on wave a living river; wealth and fashion side by side; Toiler, idler, slave and master, in the same quick current glide.

Swan flocks of lilies shoreward lying, In sweetness, not in music, dying.

Along the river's summer walk, The withered tufts of asters nod; And trembles on its arid stalk the hoar plum of the golden-rod.

Alas for him who never sees The stars shine through his cypress-trees Who, hopeless, lays his dead away, Nor looks to see the breaking day Across the mournful marbles play!

All the windows of my heart I open to the day.

Behind the cloud the starlight lurks, Through showers the sunbeams fall; For God, who loveth all his works, Has left his Hope with all.

If thou of fortune be bereft, and in thy store there be but left two loaves, sell one, and with the dole, buy hyacinths to feed thy soul.

Green calm below, blue quietness above.

The more you think change is outside of yourself the more you reinforce the idea that you do not hold the power of change inside of you.

Daily mediate on the Holy Scriptures.

― all you have to do is kill every citizen at birth and then, by God, you're left with the perfect ―

Faith is believing that Christ is what he is said to be, and that he will do what he has promised to do, and then to expect this of him.

I don't want to make pompous, serious films; I like films that have a kind of vivacity about them.

Integrity simply means a willingness not to violate one's identity, in the many ways in which such violation is possible.

Chimpanzees, typically, kiss and embrace after fights. They first make eye contact from a distance to see the mood of the others. Then they approach and kiss and embrace.

While I'm playing baseball, I'm still writing songs and having tapes sent to me. I'm sure I'll spend a lot of time in the whirlpool resting these tired bones, so I'll be thinking of music then.

When you try rescuing someone and discover they can't be reached, why would you ever throw that back in their face?

And it was where I learned how to play tennis and eventually became captain of the tennis team at the school and was on the Junior Davis Cup in New York City.