My bounce-around life had taught me that dreams were dangerous things - they look solid in your mind, but you just try to reach for them. It's like gathering clouds.

There should be fireworks at last, when a dream dies.

The worst thing of all is standing by when folks are doing something wrong.

Life was like a batch of biscuits without the baking powder: flat, flat, flat.

It's the company, not the cooking, that makes a meal.

Our actions make the fragrance of our lives...Would you smell of plums? Or Vinegar?

The wren and the nightingale sound nothing alike, but think how dull the world would be without the songs of both birds.-Miss Kanagawa

There is nothing like the occasional outburst of profanity to calm jangled nerves.

I am the richest person alive (or at least one of!) because I get to do what I love as a career.

The lessons this life has planted in my heart pertain more to caring than crops, more to Golden Rule than gold, more to the proper choice than to the popular choice.

I've always been a bookworm. As I mentioned, I moved around a lot, and one of the problems with being the new kid is it takes a while to make new friends. But I always had my books.

That is what you meant to me: a light that shone through the darkness.” (Your smile, p. 56)

First health then wealth then pleasure and do not owe anything to anybody.

Slowly but surely, we are decreasing unemployment and we are restoring confidence to the future of the Greek economy.

Rossini would have been a great composer if his teacher had spanked him enough on his backside.

I think the way we played was as important as winning the title, the way we did it with the players and the fans enjoying it.

Seek patience and passion in equal amounts. Patience alone will not build the temple. Passion alone will destroy its walls.

The soul at its highest is found like God, but an angel gives a closer idea of Him. That is all an angel is: an idea of God.

I never got to see the '27 Yankees. Everyone says that was the greatest team ever. But I think it would've been a great series if we'd have had the chance to play them.

An unlimited amount of ability can develop when parent and child are having fun together.

Forces of Destruction: grades in school, merit system, incentive pay, business plans, quotas.