Life is but thought.

There is a quiet at the heart of love, And I have pierced the pain and come to peace.

I make the most of all that comes and the least of all that goes.

Not one would mind, neither bird nor tree If mankind perished utterly; And Spring herself, when she woke at dawn, Would scarcely know that we were gone.

Take love when love is given.

No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.

My soul is a broken field, plowed by pain.

It is strange how often a heart must be broken Before the years can make it wise.

I found more joy in sorrow than you could find in joy.

The leaves fall patiently Nothing remembers or grieves The river takes to the sea The yellow drift of leaves.

Wisdom is not acquired save as the result of investigation.

The artist as citizen is here to stay.

History is a novel that has been lived, a novel is history that could have been.

To the excessively fearful the chief characteristic of power is its arbitrariness. Man had to gain enormously in confidence before he could conceive an all-powerful God who obeys his own laws.

It's hard always to say what it is one likes about a place, for me. I feel it.

Interesting thing about being rich is once you pay your taxes, you're still rich.

It's nothing personal, but I'm going to kill this guy

It's not just how hard you try, it's how well you will succeed from trying hard.

Certainty is rarely if ever possible and we increase the likelihood of getting things wrong if we succumb to the hunger for it.

The bulk of government is not legislation but administration.

Mules and human jackasses are proverbially stubborn.