I know that unremitting attention to business is the price of success, but I don't know what success is.

The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value

Goodness comes out of people who bask in the sun, as it does out of a sweet apple roasted before the fire.

Lettuce is like conversation; it must be fresh and crisp, so sparkling that you scarcely notice the bitter in it.

It is fortunate that each generation does not comprehend its own ignorance. We are thus enabled to call our ancestors barbarous.

There is no moment of delight in any pilgrimage like the beginning of it.

To own a bit of ground, to scratch it with a hoe, to plant seeds, and watch the renewal of life - this is the commonest delight of the race, the most satisfactory thing a man can do.

Mud-pies gratify one of our first and best instincts. So long as we are dirty, we are pure.

A cynic might suggest as the motto of modern life this simple legend-"just as good as the real.

Perhaps nobody ever accomplishes all that he feels lies in him to do; but nearly every one who tries his power touches the walls of his being.

Nature is, in fact, a suggester of uneasiness, a promoter of pilgrimages and of excursions of the fancy which never come to any satisfactory haven.

Faith in God will elevate you to next level blessings.

Forever's just a word.

One of the notable aspects of the democratic process is that one need not know anything about a subject in order to pass laws about it.

Trends toward increasing numbers of infection and increasing drug resistance show no sign of abating.

The theologian who labors without joy is not a theologian at all. Sulky faces, morose thoughts and boring ways of speaking are intolerable in this field.

Love is all I can possess and no one can deprive me of it. Kahlil Gibran (Visions of the Prophet)

My mom is a very warm, typical sort of Jewish-mother type. And my dad has a somewhat, um, different personality.

[Rewriting is] a whole other art form; it's about craftsmanship.

If you are quiet on the bench you will just get swallowed up. It is like a mosh pit.

April, April Laugh thy girlish laughter; Then, the moment after, Weep thy girlish tears.