If the physical perfection of childhood could last, what a possesssion it would be for humanity!

Peace is the wait of the patient soul.

One of the most perfect and unfailing joys of life is planting. It is the creative joy felt by God.

And then came a time when I could no longer say 'We,' and I found myself in a lonesome land where no one remembered that I had ever been young, or called me by my given name.

perpetuity in a home is a blanket for the cold years that come with age.

Blessed be those souls who are glad! They are a salve for sorrow and fatigue. A sun in days of darkness, a joy in sorrow, a ray of heaven shining through the uncertainness of earth.

A great magazine is sort of a net for ability.

Poor, successful, fallible Republican party! If it could only have kept the purity of the patriot impulse of which it was born!

Our stories always contain average, ordinary people. They are the most unsuspecting victims of all.

...but beautiful mosaics are made of broken pieces.

Research in this country is going down.

I asked for wonder, and He gave it to me.

If women feel they are able to go from partner to partner without feeling emotionally invested and ultimately hurt, they should go for it.

My job isn't about pursuing fame and then becoming an actor. It's about becoming an actor and if fame follows suit, that's fine.

A lot of people think that I am only in town when I'm doing the publicity circuit, but I actually come [Bread Street] regularly. I just don't publicise it.

Dare to grow into your dreams and claim this as your motto: Let it be me.

Women always try to tame themselves as they get older, but the ones who look best are often a bit wilder.

In elite, primarily white institutions, there are many blacks who have white wives. So much so that sometimes there is almost the assumption that I would be married to a white woman.