For keenest enjoyment, I visit when the dew is on them, or in cloudy weather, or when the rain is falling: and I must be alone or with someone who cares for them as I do.

...the avocado is a food without rival among the fruits, the veritable fruit of paradise

The mangosteen, queen of the tropical fruit.

The multiple failures of top-down design, and the omnipresence of unintended consequences, can be attributed in large part, to the absence of relevant information.

The Church has an excellent appetite. She has swallowed whole countries and the questionHas never risen of indigestion. Only the Church . . . can take Ill-gotten goods without stomach-ache!

Grief. The pain now is part of the happiness then. That's the deal.

History is written by the victors, but it's victims who write the memoirs.

The bird, the bee, the running child are all the same to the sliding glass door.

A few well-designed movements, properly performed in a balanced sequence, are worth hours of doing sloppy calisthenics or forced contortion.

I've never done anything for the common consensus. I do things to please me. If you are happy with something yourself, you become bulletproof.

I look at him [son Eric] and I think of my dad all the time.... I was born to be a dad.

Ryan Seacrest: Trouble, trouble trouble. So why do girls go for the bad guys, what is it Taylor Swift? Why? Taylor Swift: Because maybe we could change them! Everybody wants to like tame a lion.

I have always said that a studious perusal of the sacred volume will make better citizens, better fathers, and better husbands.