I hold that all the evil we know on earth finds in this violence done to love its true and legitimate birth.

O sweet September, thy first breezes bring The dry leaf's rustle and the squirrel's laughter, The cool fresh air whence health and vigor spring And promise of exceeding joy hereafter.

Here with my beer I sit, while golden moments flit: alas! They pass unheeded by: and as they fly, I, being dry, sit idly sipping here, my beer.

The living need charity more than the dead.

But leave me to my beer! Gold is dross, love is loss, so if I gulp my sorrows down, or see them drown in foamy draughts of old nut-brown, then I do wear the crown, without the cross!

Life for the living, and rest for the dead!

I love this simple maiden, She grows upon me more and more, And--ask the moon who 't was that kissed, Last night upon the shore!

What rare days were those, When my chief duty was to write a song.

The glass of your life is darkened, and darkly through it you see distorted and ghastly fragments of duty and destiny.

I let my summer days pass idly on.

Experience is bitter, but its teachings we retain; It has taught me this--who once has loved, loves never on earth again!

The warrior who goes off to battle should not boast as the one who returns from it.

He who is shipwrecked the second time cannot lay the blame on Neptune.

We're too smart to know there aren't easy answers. But we're not dumb enough to accept that there aren't better answers.

Having the courage to live within one's means is respectability.

Generosity is the most natural outward expression of an inner attitude of compassion and loving-kindness .

When Republicans used reconciliation in 2001 for the Bush tax cuts, they used it to increase the deficit. The whole purpose of reconciliation is for deficit reduction!

I always try to be different. I always want to surprise myself.

Turn it over to the universe daily.. but it should never be a chore.

The state of California has no business subsidizing intellectual curiosity.

For shoes I try to choose a bootie style and opt for a heel that looks good but allows me to get around.