How oft, - be witness, Guardian of our days!... The sky besprinkled o'er with rainbow hues, As if angelic wings had wanton'd there.

Home, the spot of earth supremely blest, A dearer, sweeter spot than all the rest.

If you are lucky enough to be a success, by all means enjoy the applause and the adulation of the public. But never, never believe it.

And Thou, vast Ocean! on whole awful face Time's iron feet can print no ruin trace.

My advice to you concerning applause is this: enjoy it but never quite believe it

Are you really listening... or are you just waiting for your turn to talk?

There's nothing terrible in death; 'Tis but to cast our robes away, And sleep at night, without a breath To break repose till dawn of day.

As o'er the stormy sea of human Life We sail, until our anchor'd spirits rest In the far haven of Eternity.

The solitary monk who shook the world From pagan slumber, when the gospel trump Thunder' d its challenge from his dauntless lips In peals of truth.

Earth, air, and ocean, glorious three.

So we said to ourselves, if we can remove antibodies from someone who's in the middle of a terrible rejection, and save those kidneys, then we should be able to remove them before surgery

Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups.

Surely even those immune from the world, for the time being, need the touch of one another, or all is lost.

Right time, right place, right moment.

If you live life on your own terms it shouldn’t feel like a jail cell.

It's okay to get stoned, as long as its not by other people.

Being so honest in my writing is cathartic.

In War more than anywhere else in the world things happen differently to what we had expected, and look differently when near, to what they did at a distance.

When I see the Ten Most Wanted Lists... I always have this thought: If we'd made them feel wanted earlier, they wouldn't be wanted now.

For through the South the custom still commands The gentleman to kiss the lady's hands.

Without animals, something essential is removed from the minds of the farmers.