Never a lip is curved with pain that can't be kissed into smiles again.

The delicate thought, that cannot find expression, For ruder speech too fair, That, like thy petals, trembles in possession, And scatters on the air.

A bird in the hand is a certainty, but a bird in the bush may sing.

Don't be too quickTo break bad habits: better stick,Like the Mission folk, to your arsenic.

The creator who could put a cancer in a believer's stomach is above being interfered with by prayers.

Never a tear bedims the eye That time and patience will not dry.

If, of all words of tongue and pen, The saddest are, It might have been,' More sad are these we daily see: 'It is, but hadn't ought to be!'

The dominant expression of a child is gravity.

For the glory born of Goodness Never dies, And its flag is not half-masted In the skies.

Each lost day has its patron saint!

But still when the mists of doubt prevail, And we lie becalmed by the shores of age, We hear from the misty troubled shore The voce of children gone before. Drawing the soul to its anchorage.

True love will break you, it devotes to break your beat up, broken heart awaiting to repair and align you to your true purpose.

Just because I've walked into this crazy fantasy doesn't mean I can just abandon my other plans, much as I might want to.

In good comedy, the structure comes from truth and that weird eye that looks at the way life is.

A society that condemns homosexuality harms itself. (254)

I would rather regret what I have done than what I have not.

One cannot be avenged for every wrong; according to the occasion, everyone who knows how, must use temperance.

France is a country you have to drive through to get to Italy. That's all it's there for.

In a republican land the power behind the throne is the power.

I prefer the sign NO ENTRANCE to the sign which says NO EXIT.

True adventure begins when everything goes wrong.