Experience enables me to depose to the comfort and blessing that literature can prove in seasons of sickness and sorrow.

With fingers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and red, A woman sat in unwomanly rags, Plying her needle and thread.

No shade, no shine, no butterflies, no bees, No fruits, no flowers, no leaves, no birds - November!

Dear bells! how sweet the sound of village bells When on the undulating air they swim!

My tears must stop, for every drop Hinders needle and thread.

Coquetry is the champagne of love.

There's a double beauty whenever a swan Swims on a lake with her double thereon.

Some minds improve by travel, others, rather, resemble copper wire, or brass, which get the narrower by going farther.

I saw old Autumn in the misty morn stand shadowless like silence, listening to silence.

I remember, I remember, The house where I was born, The little window where the sun Came peeping in at morn.

Gold! gold! gold! gold! Bright and yellow, hard and cold!

The stalker, meanwhile, stepped into the road. Didn’t even check for traffic. There wasn’t any, but something told me this was lucky for traffic rather than the stalker.

Your talent determines what you can do. Your motivation determines how much you are willing to do. Your attitude determines how well you do it.

I was high on life but eventually I built up a tolerance.

Is it not gain to have diminished the faith that it was the duty of the wretched and the miserable to be content with the lot in life which providence had awarded them?

While I’ve worked on many topics and written many books, I have not abandoned my interest in multiple intelligences.

Passion is all but soft, it's not tender, it's violence to which you get hooked by pleasure.

I don't get to go to the super fancy stores unless I am in L.A. so you stay pretty real and normal that way.

It will profit you nothing to remember old wrongs and nurse old enmities.

Don’t allow circumstance to hold you back- even negative ones. You don’t have to let your circumstances define you. You can define yourself, and the best way to find yourself is through education.

I know that 20 years from now if anyone asks me one question, it will be, 'What was it like to be in Saving Private Ryan?