I pray, what flowers are these? The pansy this, O, that's for lover's thoughts.

I will neither yield to the song of the siren nor the voice of the hyena, the tears of the crocodile nor the howling of the wolf.

Let no man value at a little price A virtuous woman's counsel; her winged spirit Is feathered often times with heavenly words, And, like her beauty, ravishing and pure.

Flatterers look like friends, as wolves like dogs.

Keep thy shop, and thy shop will keep thee. Light gains make heavy purses. 'Tis good to be merry and wise.

Be free all worthy spirits, and stretch yourselves, for greatness and for height.

An Englishman, being flattered, is a lamb; threatened, a lion.

The best way to accomplish something is to just do it, and then find the courage afterward.

Love is Natures second sun.

Fair words never hurt the tongue.

Young men think old men are fools, but old men know young men are fools.

You'd be surprised how often you doubt your own sanity when you don't understand your own capacities.

Beauty is power a smile is its sword.

I dread karaoke. I hate karaoke. I can't sing - that is why.

Bad criticism has followed things like comic books or TV, and they put down a medium. A medium cannot be inherently good or bad.

The growth of a naturalist is like the growth of a musician or athlete: excellence for the talented, lifelong enjoyment for the rest, benefit for humanity.

Never work for a company that says people are its most important asset. If you wanted to get a mortgage and you said that your only asset was people you would end up living in a tent.

As a sensitive and highly intuitive person in the command-and-control corporate world, I always felt miscast.

Majorities and minorities cannot rightfully be taken at all into account in deciding questions of justice.

Laugh with people laughing, cry with people crying, but don't fall into the river of world illusion. Stay on the banks.

I remember as a child, my grandmother read to me Silent Spring. It was incomprehensible to me that there could be a world without birdsong.