Half the interest of a garden is the constant exercise of the imagination.

Every day may not be good... but there's something good in every day

The clock is running. Make the most of today. Time waits for no man. Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That's why it is called the present.

It is heartrending to read the entries in many an old family Bible - the records of suffering, distress, and blasted hopes.

The landlord of colonial days may not have been the greatest man in town, but he was certainly the best-known, often the most popular, and ever the most picturesque and cheerful figure.

Every sea-captain who sailed to the West Indies was expected to bring home a turtle on the return voyage for a feast to his expectant friends.

When the first settlers landed on American shores, the difficulties in finding or making shelter must have seemed ironical as well as almost unbearable.

Roxanne Archer designed her strategy like a four-star general—or a stalker.

Genius moves to creation, not to destruction. Only a very few have combined both.

Lucky that man whose children make his happiness in life and not his grief, the anguished disappointment of his hopes.

The human species, according to the best theory I can form of it, is composed of two distinct races, the men who borrow and the men who lend.

I took interest in Paris Hilton at one point and got fascinated with her voice.

The must have it now mentality, was man's first step into the gorging of his natural home.

I like rhythmic things that butt up against each other in a cool kind of way.

One of the great healing balms of the Holy Spirit is forgiveness. To forgive is to break the link between you and your past.

I'm a Labour politician, but, you know, I can see decent Tories with good ideas.

A writer can do nothing for men more necessary, satisfying, than just simply to reveal to them the infinite possibility of their own souls.