May exalting and humanizing thoughts forever accompany me, making me confident without pride, and modest without servility.

Green little vaulter, in the sunny grass, Catching your heart up at the feel of June, Sole noise that's heard amidst the lazy noon, When ev'n the bees lag at the summoning brass.

The groundwork of all happiness is health.

Stolen kisses are always sweetest.

We are slumberous poppies, Lords of Lethe downs, Some awake and some asleep, Sleeping in our crowns. What perchance our dreams may know, Let our serious may know.

The most tangible of all visible mysteries - fire.

Sympathizing and selfish people are alike, both given to tears.

Traveling in the company of those we love is home in motion.

Colors are the smiles of nature.

Patience and gentleness is power.

Music is the medicine of the breaking heart.

Surely every one realizes, at some point along the way, that he is capable of living a far better life than the one he has chosen.

The moral world has no particular objection to vice, but an insuperable repugnance to hearing vice called by its proper name.

I should have known right then that I was dreaming. But oh how we hang on to dreams even when we are gifted the largest of clues.

Bury my body and don't build any monument. Keep my hands out so the people know the one who won the world had nothing in hand when he died.

The battle for our hearts is fought on the pages of our calendar.

Imagine what our real neighborhoods would be like if each of us offered . . . just one kind word to another person.

I've never been one of those who wanted to fill my calendar up 90 percent of the time.

Luxury possibly may contribute to give bread to the poor; but if there were no luxury, there would be no poor.

The process of receiving information for me is seeing, hearing, and feeling their energy in my frame of reference. That doesn't mean I see the individual, unfortunately.

Lots of ingenuity gets you through times with no money better than money gets you through times of no ingenuity.