If woman lost us Eden, such As she alone restore it.

For all sad words of tongue and pen, The saddest are these, 'It might have been'.

A little smile, a word of cheer, A bit of love from someone near, A little gift from one held dear, Best wishes for the coming year. These make a merry christmas!

Through this broad street, restless ever, ebbs and flows a human tide, wave on wave a living river; wealth and fashion side by side; Toiler, idler, slave and master, in the same quick current glide.

Swan flocks of lilies shoreward lying, In sweetness, not in music, dying.

Along the river's summer walk, The withered tufts of asters nod; And trembles on its arid stalk the hoar plum of the golden-rod.

Alas for him who never sees The stars shine through his cypress-trees Who, hopeless, lays his dead away, Nor looks to see the breaking day Across the mournful marbles play!

All the windows of my heart I open to the day.

Behind the cloud the starlight lurks, Through showers the sunbeams fall; For God, who loveth all his works, Has left his Hope with all.

If thou of fortune be bereft, and in thy store there be but left two loaves, sell one, and with the dole, buy hyacinths to feed thy soul.

Green calm below, blue quietness above.

Be simple to fill life with abundance.

Change means movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of a nonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasive friction of conflict.

As long as I can stay competitive and have fun doing what I'm doing, I guess I'll keep doing it.

If I think the environment in the world needs to be cleaned up, let me clean up my own environment. Let me clean up the environment in my head - let me work with that pollution and that ecosystem.

One person's enemy is another person's best friend. My favorite food might give you a rash.

The opposite of bad is not good.The opposite of bad is love

Art is the window to man's soul. Without it, he would never be able to see beyond his immediate world; nor could the world see the man within.

Forgiveness is the key to inner peace because it is the mental technique by which our thoughts are transformed from fear to love.

It is not talking but walking that will bring us to heaven.

All over the world, people want to know what kind of people Texans are, and I explain that Texans are America's ideal Americans.