Outward success alienates a man from himself.

Obstacles are a measure of the intensity of your passion.

You cannot get before you give. Wood cannot give you warmth before you start the fires.

Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm.

Cats are inquisitive, but hate to admit it.

It's safe to tell a secret to one, Risky to tell it to two. To tell it to three is thoughtless folly, Everyone else will know.

When reason and instinct are reconciled, there will be no higher appeal.

I am a marginally employed person who can escape with my school teacher wife to the waters of Maine for much of the summer.

There's always an added element of a poem when it's read aloud because then you can really hear the rhythm, and the cadence, and even the pronunciation sometimes adds another layer to the poem.

I think if you turn down the volume on the good comedy, you should not even know if it's a comedy or not. It should look like a drama.

If you want to know why some kids can wait and others can't, then you've got to think like they think.