Except wind stands as it never stood It is an ill wind turns none to good.

At Christmas play and make good cheer, For Christmas comes but once a year.

Sweet April showers do spring May flowers.

Each man must for himself alone decide what is right and what is wrong, which course is patriotic and which isn't. You cannot shirk this and be a man.

Seek home for rest, for home is best.

Who goeth a borrowing. Goeth a sorrowing.

Tide flowing is feared, for many a thing, Great danger to such as be sick, it doth bring; Sea ebb, by long ebbing, some respite doth give, And sendeth good comfort, to such as shall live.

The stone that is rolling can gather no moss;For master and servant oft changing is loss.

A fool and his money be soon at debate

God sendeth and giveth both mouth and the meat.

Ill husbandry braggeth To go with the best: Good husbandry baggeth Up gold in his chest.

I tried not to make God this big deal in Joan's life. She treats God like a friend: she's nice to him some days, and other days mean, and then cries when she needs help.

Secrets find a way out in sleep . . . It is the place where there is no pretense.

The people you don't know turn out to be exactly like the people you do know, same faults, same everything.

The whole thing resolves itself into our mental ability to control our thought. The man who can do this can have what he wants, can do what he wishes and becomes what he wills.

To love means to be actively concerned for the life and the growth of another.

If we don't take responsibility for ourselves, someone else will take it for you.

Young children give us glimpses of some things that are eternal.

The manufacture of wax candles was another important branch of business in the nunnery.

I feel most at home when I am writing a poem—because in that instant, I am everywhere.

You can think and you can fight, but the world's always movin', and if you wanna stay ahead you gotta dance.