If I ruled supreme, there would be big problems.

There should be fireworks at last, when a dream dies.

The worst thing of all is standing by when folks are doing something wrong.

Life was like a batch of biscuits without the baking powder: flat, flat, flat.

It's the company, not the cooking, that makes a meal.

Our actions make the fragrance of our lives...Would you smell of plums? Or Vinegar?

The wren and the nightingale sound nothing alike, but think how dull the world would be without the songs of both birds.-Miss Kanagawa

There is nothing like the occasional outburst of profanity to calm jangled nerves.

I am the richest person alive (or at least one of!) because I get to do what I love as a career.

The lessons this life has planted in my heart pertain more to caring than crops, more to Golden Rule than gold, more to the proper choice than to the popular choice.

I've always been a bookworm. As I mentioned, I moved around a lot, and one of the problems with being the new kid is it takes a while to make new friends. But I always had my books.

Hire new field systems maintainer" was near the top of my to-do list, right under "uncover massive political conspiracy, " "avenge Buffy's death, " and "don't die.

Teachers are more than any other group the guardians of civilization.

What we are finding out now is that there are not only limits to growth but also to technology and that we cannot allow technology to go on without public consent.

Thought alone cannot recognize spiritual truths no matter how highly developed thought is. It's impossible.

America was the worst place in the world in which to fail, fall sick, get old or die, because then your problems had crystallised into the unforgivable sin. Failure.

For it matters not how small the beginning may seem to be: what is once well done is done forever.

Most of us have never allowed ourselves to want what we truly want because we can't see how it's going to manifest.

"The New York Times" is reporting correctly that women had accused a presidential candidate of sexual assault. Now that's news on any level. I mean you can't argue that that's not news.

The secret is to try and do 75% of the things you're really passionate about and maybe 25% doing the shitty jobs that have to be done.

They were real golfers, for real golf is a thing of the spirit, not of mere mechanical excellence of stroke.