Cats at firesides live luxuriously and are the picture of comfort.

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.

If you really want to escape the things that harass you, what you’re needing is not to be in a different place but to be a different person.

The lovely Hazard girls', they used to call them. Huh. Lovely is as lovely does; if they looked like what they behave like, they'd frighten little children.

The hangover was brutal but he didn't mind. It told him he had been somewhere else, someplace good.

People ask me why I keep getting injured but I have just had to accept it is one of those things that happen.

You can't get an actor to do something that is beyond his range, so you have to be aware of the range of the actor and, if necessary, alter the part to suit the actor.

Punning is a talent which no man affects to despise but he that is without it.

Life is too sweet and too short to express our affection with just our thumbs. Touch is meant for more than a keyboard.

Become dust - and they will throw thee in the air; Become stone - and they will throw thee on glass.

It's easier to identify with loss than love, because we have had so much more experience of it.

I do know that a law professor there [in Columbia University] published an article calling me a white supremacist.