For reasons which many persons thought ridiculous, Mrs. Lightfoot Lee decided to pass the winter in Washington.

A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.

All experience is an arch, to build upon.

The Indian Summer of life should be a little sunny and a little sad, like the season, and infinite in wealth and depth of tone, but never hustled.

One friend in a life-time is much; two are many; three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.

Chaos was the law of nature; Order was the dream of man.

One friend in a lifetime is much; two are many; three are hardly possible.

Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.

They know enough who know how to learn.

The American President resembles the commander of a ship at sea. He must have a helm to grasp, a course to steer, a port to seek.

Some day science may have the existence of mankind in its power, and the human race commit suicide, by blowing up the world.

When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.

You can change any status quo, stand out, walk by faith and not by sight and things will definitely go well with you.

Only in thoughtful dialogue with what it says can this fragment of thinking be translated. However, thinking is poetizing, and indeed more than one kind of poetizing, more than poetry and song.

Turn," Liz said, trying not to hide her impatience at being forced to read at non-speed-of-light pace.

Island of Hispaniola once so populous (having a population that I estimated to be more than three million), has now a population of barely two hundred persons.

I believe that you must be madly in love with cinema to create films. You also need a huge cinematic baggage.

May I say that I have not thoroughly enjoyed serving with humans? I find their illogic and foolish emotions a constant irritant.

Californians tend to be outspoken. When the great migration began, the more timid people must have stayed home, and the bolder ones headed west.

I like music that is really pure and honest. For me, acoustic music, like a piece played on the piano, is very personal.

We are never alone when we stand with our Father in Heaven.