Do not hurry too fast in these early winter days, - a quiet hour is worth more to you than anything you can do in it.

Tact is after all a kind of mind reading.

Look bravely up into the sky, And be content with knowing That God wished for a buttercup Just here, where you are growing.

My childhood is very vivid to me, and I don't feel very different now from the way I felt then. It would appear I am the very same person, only with wrinkles.

A story should be managed so that it should suggest interesting things to the reader instead of the author's doing all the thinking for him, and setting it before him in black and white.

The growth of true friendship may be a lifelong affair.

I've found that people who look at things as they are, and not as they wish them to be, are the ones who succeed.

It seems to me like stealing, for men and women to live in the world and do nothing to make it better.

When she walked...she stretched out long and thin like a little tiger, and held her head high to look over the grass as if she were treading the jungle.

The warm sun kissed the earthTo consecrate thy birth,And from his close embraceThy radiant faceSprang into sight,A blossoming delight.

In the life of each of us there is a place remote and islanded, and given to endless regret or secret happiness.

He watched his feet, the only things that were keeping him from finding out if there really was a Kingdom of Heaven or not.

We’re animals. No shame, no guilt - no sin…

It is easier to love humanity as a whole than to love one's neighbor.

Say and do something positive that will help the situation it doesn't take any brains to complain.

Life is a gift, given in trust - like a child.

I've been good about keeping my nose to the grindstone.

Like to the apples on the Dead Sea's shore, All ashes to the taste.

The mission - the overall mission is to dismantle and defeat and disrupt al-Qaeda. But we have to make sure there's not a safe haven that returns in Afghanistan.

I have conquered an empire but I have not been able to conquer myself

To be conservative at 20 is heartless and to be a liberal at 60 is plain idiocy.