February brings the rain, Thaws the frozen lake again.

Hot July brings cooling showers, Apricots and gillyflowers.

January brings the snow, makes our feet and fingers glow.

Chill December brings the sleet, Blazing fire, and Christmas treat.

June brings tulips, lilies, roses, Fills the children's hands with posies.

Dull November brings the blast, Then the leaves are whirling fast.

April brings the primrose sweet, / Scatters daisies at our feet.

The Poplar grows up straight and tall, The Pear-tree spreads along the wall

there is nothing so uncertain and slippery as fact.

The desire to be the object of public attention is weak, but the excessive dread of it is but a form of vanity and over-self-contemplativeness.

Life is the steam of the corporeal engine; the soul is the engineer who makes use of the steam-quickened engine.

Failure is not actually an event, it is more a reaction to an event and is an important part of learning.

I always see where I didn't do things the right way. I only see the heavy lifting. That's a bit of my wisdom, if you want to call it that.

I'm not defending what Cory Booker said. I'm saying I understand why he has to kiss the asses of the rich people on Wall Street, because there's no other way to keep his city afloat.

Mars is far more attractive as an outpost colony for earthlings than the moon is.

Somewhere there's a someone for me. Though I may be lonely now, I'll see it through somehow, to somebody's heart I know I hold the key.

All governments need enemies. How else to justify their existence?

Once you've found something you know how to do, it makes you feel you don't have to be intimidated by someone.

I wasn't the cutest or the most talented, but I could get through the question-and-answer period.

They've done the old-fashioned things well; they've kicked the ball, they've headed it.