Our power of being happy lies a good deal in ourselves, I believe.

Strange that grief should now almost choke me, because another human being's eye has failed to greet mine.

I'll borrow of imagination what reality will not give me.

Having a large world of his own in his own head and heart, he tolerated confinement to a small, still corner of the real world very patiently.

. . . they would neither hate nor envy us if they did not deem us so much happier than themselves.

In her past were sweet passages, in her future rosy hopes.

He did not yet known how many commenced lefe-romances are doomed never to get beyond the first, or at most the second chapter.

Existence was never originally meant to be that useless, blank, pale, slow-trailing thing it often becomes to many, and is becoming to me among the rest.

I will bestir myself, ' was her resolution, 'and try to be wise if I cannot be good.

Endurance over-goaded, stretched the hand of fraternity to sedition.

His mind has the clearness of the deep sea, the patience of its rocks, the force of its billows.

What you read renew your mind.

If my liver cared enough, it would have told me to stop. - Jonathan "Jack" McVoy

Love the sea? I dote upon it - from the beach.

So for my studio purposes, I know that I'm in my studio with technicians who've done amazing things to my board and to my power amps and I know what I can deliver out of my studio.

I've never been overseas. I can only imagine what that's like.

The truth is you and I are in control of only two things - how we prepare for what might happen and how we respond to what just happened. The moment when things actually do happen belongs to God.

Love is the spirit that motivates the artist's journey.

When you look closely people are so strange & so complicated that they're actually beautiful.

My father always told me I should be a writer, and I found I loved writing my autobiography; writing is such an interesting process.

I never left the field saying I could have done more to get ready and that gives me peace of mind.