Everything has been something before.

The telling of a story, like virtually everything in this life, was always made all the easier by a cup of tea.

Be content with who you are and where you are, and do whatever you can do to bring to others such contentment, and joy, and understanding that you have managed to find yourself.

There is room in history for all of us.

Manners are the basic building blocks of civil society.

I see no point in being despondent. We might as well enjoy ourselves during our brief tenure of this life.

How many of us are happy to be exactly where we are at any moment?...only the completely happy think that they are in the correct place.

Talking about pumpkins doesn't make them grow.

We think the world is ours forever, but we are little more than squatters.

There are old mycologists and there are bold mycologists, but there are no old, bold mycologists.

A life without stories would be no life at all. And stories bound us, did they not, one to another, the living to the dead, people to animals, people to the land?

This world is not here for you

Stretched by an idea,    we can aspire to new heights,      new ways of thinking.

Progress is not about hating or destroying America, it is about loving and building the world, which can only come from healing our national dementia.

A lot of senators are so worried about convention and how they look that they wouldn't let their hair down if they had any.

Politics is like a race horse. A good jockey must know how to fall with the least possible damage.

Everyone wants to shine bright like a diamond, but no one wants to get cut.

But I'd rather not predict. I'd rather affect.

Passion, though a bad regulator, is a powerful spring.

Music - so different from painting - is the art which we enjoy most in company with others. A symphony, presented in a room with one other listener, would please him but little.

Dream that the more you struggle, the more you prove the love that you bear your God, and the more you will rejoice one day with your Beloved, in a happiness and rapture that can never end.