Our fathers valued change for the sake of its results we value it in the act.

We talk of sunshine and moonshine, but not of cloud-shine, which is yet one of the illuminations of our skies. A shining cloud is one of the most majestic of all secondary lights.

Happiness is not a matter of events; it depends upon the tides of the mind.

There is nothing in the world more peaceful than apple - leaves with an early moon.

If there is a look of human eyes that tells of perpetual loneliness, so there is also the familiar look that is the sign of perpetual crowds.

The sense of humor has other things to do than to make itself conspicuous in the act of laughter.

Assuredly it would be a pity if laughter should ever become, like rhetoric and the arts, a habit.

My day-mind can endure / Upright, in hope, all it must undergo. / But O, afraid, unsure, / My night-mind waking lies too low, too low.

A child is beset with long traditions. And his infancy is so old, so old, that the mere adding of years in the life to follow will not seem to throw it further back -- it is already so far.

I come from nothing: but from where come the undying thoughts I bear?

Rich meanings of the prophet-Spring adorn, / Unseen, this colorless sky of folded showers, / And folded winds...

The truth may not set you free, but used carefully, it can confuse the hell out of your enemies.

I am talking to you, but the moment I am talking to you, the universe is being created and destroyed.

I had a tumor. But it was great.

But then Macon smiled at me. "Just be yourself, Foster. That's the best thing in the world.

I don't criticize myself; I criticize my body.

I think China is set up to surpass the US on the even more critical industry of green power.

Countries where women have access to professional life are also those where the birth rate is higher.

Sleep is like the unicorn - it is rumored to exist, but I doubt I will see any

As the pilot of a vessel is tried in the storm; as the wrestler is tried in the ring, the soldier in the battle, and the hero in adversity: so is the Christian tried in temptation.

The challenge of every team is to build a feeling of oneness, of dependence on one another because the question is usually not how well each person performs, but how well they work together.