O woman! thou wert fashioned to beguile: So have all sages said, all poets sung.

O fateful flower beside the rill- The Daffodil, the daffodil!

A healthful hunger for a great idea is the beauty and blessedness of life.

When sparrows build and the leaves break forth My old sorrow wakes and cries.

Youth! youth! how buoyant are thy hopes! they turn, like marigolds, toward the sunny side.

I have lived to thank God that all my prayers have not been answered.

Crowds of bees are giddy with clover Crowds of grasshoppers skip at our feet, Crowds of larks at their matins hang over, Thanking the Lord for a life so sweet.

Her face betokened all things dear and good, The light of somewhat yet to come was there Asleep, and waiting for the opening day, When childish thoughts, like flowers would drift away.

And bitter waxed the fray; Brother with brother spake no word When they met in the way.

Man is the miracle in nature. God Is the One Miracle to man.

The moon looks upon many night flowers; the night flowers see but one moon.

Winner goes with the flow, History Maker against the flow

The thing about opium is that it makes pain or difficulty unimaginable.

The conversation limped along this line of thought much like a zombie: lifeless and mindless and making a jelly of whatever healthy brains were within its reach.

Freedom would be not to choose between black and white but to abjure such prescribed choices.

Whereas, if you just say all right, let's try to bring in some recurring people, maybe that will alleviate some of the burdens on the budget moving forward.

I taught myself to write in order to understand who I was and so yes, writing was an act of self-actualization in the beginning.

Nobody can see into the future. Nobody knows what going to go on.

Architects see the world a certain way, and cooks see and smell the world a certain way. [Dancing ] is always been my lens, what I use to see.

Of course we all know that's not how life works. The novel that is our life can end at any time. Sometimes even on page one.

The number one thing I look for in a man is integrity. A man who does what he says he's going to do.