Courtesy gives its owner a passport round the world. It transmutes aliens into trusting friends.

What we sow in youth we reap in age; the seed of the thistle always produces the thistle.

Oh, to be home again, home again, home again! Under the apple-boughs, down by the mill!

Inner sunshine warms not only the heart of the owner, but all who come in contact with it.

Is n't God upon the ocean Just the same as on the land?

The man who tells me an indelicate story does me an injury.

Just then, with a wink and a sly normal lurch, The owl very gravely got down from his perch, Walked round, and regarded his fault-finding critic (Who thought he was stuffed) with a glance analytic.

Let heaven-eyed Prudence battle with Desire.

When we truly care, we mix love, compassion, and kindness together in our hearts.

All stories are, in some form, prayers.

Clint Eastwood is an extraordinary director because he knows the value of a buck. He knows where it will show on the screen.

Only in England is the perversion of language regarded as a victory for democracy.

I am a member of the London Library, and on almost every single job I do, there is some benefit to be had in going there and pulling two or three books off the shelves.

When gravitational waves reach the earth, the waves stretch and squeeze space. This is a tiny stretch and squeeze. Far too small to detect with ordinary human senses.

We must never relinquish the vision of a humane society and a humane world.

Do you think I give a damn about your and your pathetic violin?

For years I drove a big Ford F250 pickup. That was my ride because two-thirds of my work was wood work, and I'm always driving up to Northern California, where I harvest salvaged trees.