Do not economize on the hymeneal rites; do not prune them of their splendor, nor split farthings on the day when you are radiant. A wedding is not house-keeping.

Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.

It is not enough to be happy, one must be content.

Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

To love beauty is to see light.

An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise.

The future has several names. For the weak, it is impossible; for the fainthearted, it is unknown; but for the valiant, it is ideal.

Go out in the world and work like money doesn't matter, sing as if no one is listening, love as if you have never been hurt, and dance as if no one is watching.

When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right.

Music expresses that which cannot be put into words.

There is nothing like a dream to create the future.

Ma Baxter rocked complacently. They were all pleased whenever she made a joke. Her good nature made the same difference in the house as the hearth-fire had made in the chill of the evening.

You may not be the smartest, or the fastest, or the most talented. But you CAN work the hardest.

I steadied by guitar against the table, and steadied myself with it.And forgot every rule I had ever known.

With effort we can protect the foundation of our democracy, for which so many marched across this bridge, the right to vote.

My father, I never knew, except for this one time when he threw a ball and told me to go fetch it. "Dad," I said. "Am I a dog?" "Lydia," he said. "I apologize.

Life is a game in which the player must appear ridiculous.

The idea of service to humanity, putting yourself in situations where people have much less than you do, puts life in perspective.

I'm not a person that's walkin' down the street looking mean all day.

Because ideas have to be original only with regard to their adaptation to the problem at hand, I am always extremely interested in how others have used used them.

Marriage is a fine and sacred thing if you make it so.