Is n't God upon the ocean Just the same as on the land?

What we sow in youth we reap in age; the seed of the thistle always produces the thistle.

Oh, to be home again, home again, home again! Under the apple-boughs, down by the mill!

Inner sunshine warms not only the heart of the owner, but all who come in contact with it.

Courtesy gives its owner a passport round the world. It transmutes aliens into trusting friends.

The man who tells me an indelicate story does me an injury.

Just then, with a wink and a sly normal lurch, The owl very gravely got down from his perch, Walked round, and regarded his fault-finding critic (Who thought he was stuffed) with a glance analytic.

Let heaven-eyed Prudence battle with Desire.

Hate is infectious, but so is love, the difference between the two is one takes effort and the other one doesn’t.

That's the thing about hands, I love to hold hands because it brings comfort to me to feel I'm holding onto someone I love.

In the village, a sage should go about Like a bee, which, not harmingFlower, colour or scent, Flies off with the nectar.

We have to treasure our country, our freedom, the progress we've made, and if we see any of that threatened, we have to respond.

The way I work is mostly unconscious and instinctive.

Pleasure is, after all, a luxury. It's love that's essential.

There's nothing stronger than a woman protecting her child

One of the things I'm going to say out there is how grateful I am - and how grateful the world is - for the tremendous gift of the black people, of jazz.

When we meet someone and fall in love, we have a sense that the whole universe is on our side. And yet if something goes wrong, there is nothing left!

No writer, however popular, disdains a reader, however humble.