Assuredly it would be a pity if laughter should ever become, like rhetoric and the arts, a habit.

We talk of sunshine and moonshine, but not of cloud-shine, which is yet one of the illuminations of our skies. A shining cloud is one of the most majestic of all secondary lights.

Happiness is not a matter of events; it depends upon the tides of the mind.

There is nothing in the world more peaceful than apple - leaves with an early moon.

If there is a look of human eyes that tells of perpetual loneliness, so there is also the familiar look that is the sign of perpetual crowds.

The sense of humor has other things to do than to make itself conspicuous in the act of laughter.

My day-mind can endure / Upright, in hope, all it must undergo. / But O, afraid, unsure, / My night-mind waking lies too low, too low.

A child is beset with long traditions. And his infancy is so old, so old, that the mere adding of years in the life to follow will not seem to throw it further back -- it is already so far.

I come from nothing: but from where come the undying thoughts I bear?

Rich meanings of the prophet-Spring adorn, / Unseen, this colorless sky of folded showers, / And folded winds...

No mirror keeps its glances.

X is for X-mas Concentrate your energies, your thoughts and your capital. Put all your eggs in one basket and then watch that basket, then all your Christmases can come at once!

The biggest and loveliest miracle of today is you yourself!

The Fall is an offense to human reason, but once accepted, it makes perfect sense of the human condition.

I am convinced the Church is the greatest hope for humanity and for creating a new world where everyone is valued and embraced regardless of differences.

Rotten travesty. Yeah. Send me to jail for contempt. Try that. Go ahead.

I'd had the quintessential liberal arts experience, and I came out of college not having a clue of what to do.

I believe in the directorial point of view and directorial choices.

I make music with no boundaries.

I am repelled by those who voice the word 'nature', without having any trace of it in their hearts.

There must be something in books, something we can’t imagine, to make a woman stay in a burning house; there must be something there. You don’t stay for nothing.