I do what I do merrily out of curiosity because I want to know how the brain works. That will get me up early in the morning and keep me going all day long.

A glass is good, and a lass is good, And a pipe to smoke in cold weather; The world is good, and the people are good, And we 're all good fellows together.

Amo, amas, I love a lass, As a cedar tall and slender; Sweet cowslip's grace is her nominative case, And she's of the feminine gender.

What baron or squire Or knight of the shire Lives half so well as a holy friar.

Kids chase the love that eludes them.

Then be human. Let go and move on. They who hurt you cannot expand their mind. But surely you can.

Whenever we look at life, we look at networks.

The postman wants an autograph. The cab driver wants a picture. The waitress wants a handshake. Everyone wants a piece of you.

I have to go back to vinyl every once in awhile, even if my kids don't want to hear it. I'm much more likely to be listening to Wilco or the Avett Brothers.

Look to Africa, when a black king shall be crowned for the day of deliverance is at hand!

If God objected to [people with various handicaps], he ought not have created such people.

No man can run up the natural line of Evolution without coming to Christianity at the top.

What a dignity it gives an old lady, that balance at the bankers! How tenderly we look at her faults if she is a relative; what a kind, good-natured old creature we find her!

I'm always amazed at how people make work no matter how intense the pressure.