For the more a soul conforms to the sanity of others, the more does it become insane.

Saddle your dreams before you ride em.

If you stop to be kind, you must swerve often from your path.

Green is the fresh emblem of well founded hopes. In blue the spirit can wander, but in green it can rest.

Nature's music is never over; her silences are pauses, not conclusions.

The well of Providence is deep. It's the buckets we bring to it that are small.

The past is only the present become invisible and mute; and because it is invisible and mute, its memorized glances and its murmurs are infinitely precious. We are tomorrow's past.

Autumn is full of leave-taking. In September the swallows are chattering of destination and departure like a crowd of tourists.

It's the folks that depend on us for this and for the other that we most do miss.

Give me good digestion, Lord, And also something to digest; but where and how that something comes I leave to Thee, who knoweth best.

If you know much about your work - why you work, how you work, your aims - you are probably not a poet.

be my sonata, my cantata, my lovesing me something sweetbut not too sweet(or i may grow deaf to our harmonyas we decrescendo into silence)

The most lies we will ever tell in our lives will be to ourselves.

I never wanted to do observational humor because I never wanted to tell people what they were seeing.

As self-driving cars become more common, there will be a flood of new legal questions.

I think the political process has degenerated into name-calling and extremism, and I think that that's unfortunate.

Legacy leaders are the only ones wiling to pay the price to fix a broken culture.

All I want for my birthday is another birthday.

Life is what happens when you make other plans.

My mother used to say, If other people have a problem with you, that's their problem. It's not your problem. I still have that philosophy today.

When I am in the company of scientists, I feel like a shabby curate who has strayed by mistake into a drawing room full of dukes.