Green calm below, blue quietness above.

For all sad words of tongue and pen, The saddest are these, 'It might have been'.

A little smile, a word of cheer, A bit of love from someone near, A little gift from one held dear, Best wishes for the coming year. These make a merry christmas!

Through this broad street, restless ever, ebbs and flows a human tide, wave on wave a living river; wealth and fashion side by side; Toiler, idler, slave and master, in the same quick current glide.

Swan flocks of lilies shoreward lying, In sweetness, not in music, dying.

Along the river's summer walk, The withered tufts of asters nod; And trembles on its arid stalk the hoar plum of the golden-rod.

Alas for him who never sees The stars shine through his cypress-trees Who, hopeless, lays his dead away, Nor looks to see the breaking day Across the mournful marbles play!

All the windows of my heart I open to the day.

Behind the cloud the starlight lurks, Through showers the sunbeams fall; For God, who loveth all his works, Has left his Hope with all.

If thou of fortune be bereft, and in thy store there be but left two loaves, sell one, and with the dole, buy hyacinths to feed thy soul.

the joy that you give to others is the joy that comes back to you

There’s nothing as cozy as a piece of candy and a book.

Oh, I don’t mean to infer that you’re not a great guy. I’m sure you’re the exception to the rule.

What for me is bliss and life and ecstasy and exaltation, the world in general seeks at most in imagination; in life it finds it absurd.

I'm a neurotic New York Jew by birth. Creating characters is second nature to me.

Maura whirled towards Blue. "Blue, if you ever see that man again, you just walk the other way." "No," Calla corrected. "Kick him in the nuts. Then run the other way.

Bug eating and backstabbing are the stuff of great entertainment.

Our goal is to create a quality of empathic connection that allows everyone's needs to be met.

The purpose of parenting is to provide steady and wide-ranging opportunities for a child. The child does the rest.

When I listen to songs, I can smell a rat. I like songs that speak to me with some deeper truth.

If I can make you unhappy, then I can make you happy as well.