Politics makes strange bedfellows.

The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value

Goodness comes out of people who bask in the sun, as it does out of a sweet apple roasted before the fire.

Lettuce is like conversation; it must be fresh and crisp, so sparkling that you scarcely notice the bitter in it.

It is fortunate that each generation does not comprehend its own ignorance. We are thus enabled to call our ancestors barbarous.

There is no moment of delight in any pilgrimage like the beginning of it.

To own a bit of ground, to scratch it with a hoe, to plant seeds, and watch the renewal of life - this is the commonest delight of the race, the most satisfactory thing a man can do.

Mud-pies gratify one of our first and best instincts. So long as we are dirty, we are pure.

A cynic might suggest as the motto of modern life this simple legend-"just as good as the real.

Perhaps nobody ever accomplishes all that he feels lies in him to do; but nearly every one who tries his power touches the walls of his being.

Nature is, in fact, a suggester of uneasiness, a promoter of pilgrimages and of excursions of the fancy which never come to any satisfactory haven.

When you can't tell the truth, tell *a* truth.

Let us dream of tomorrow where we can truly love from the soul, and know love as the ultimate truth at the heart of all creation.

I will form good habits and become their slave.

Her body was designed for pleasure, not speed, and Coop intended to take his time with it.

The secret of life is to have no fear it's the only way to function.

On him who wields power gently, the god looks favorably from afar.

He that comes in print because he would be known, is like the fool that comes into the market because he would be seen.

There's nothing that will change someone's moral outlook quicker than cash in large sums.

If music's a political place, I'm out.

The past is such a subtle thing. [But] in the end, nothing else exists, everything is made of the past, even the future.