I sat down and knitted for some time - my usual resource under discouraging circumstances.

Everything suggests a beyond.

I don't come from a famous family and don't have this detachment from everyday people and everyday life. I'm just doing my job and the attention that comes with it is part of the territory.

Gardeners often focus exclusively on plants, missing the absolutely essential visual role played by structures, from paths to pavilions.

It is not new continents the earth needs, but new men.

Frederick Buechner can find grace and redemption even in the shoddiest, phoniest aspects of a cultural wasteland. One reads Lion Country...with hope and delight.

This is a dishonest administration, because it is becoming clear that the unemployment statistics of the [Barack] Obama administration are not believable.

I greet you all in the name of peace, democracy and freedom for all.

Health is the first muse, and sleep is the condition to produce it.

Originally, 'Popular' was going to be a movie.

I want to cry because something terrible happened, and I saw it, and I could not see a way to mend it.

In springtime, the only pretty ring time Birds sing, hey ding A-ding, a-ding Sweet lovers love the spring—