Poor, successful, fallible Republican party! If it could only have kept the purity of the patriot impulse of which it was born!

Peace is the wait of the patient soul.

One of the most perfect and unfailing joys of life is planting. It is the creative joy felt by God.

And then came a time when I could no longer say 'We,' and I found myself in a lonesome land where no one remembered that I had ever been young, or called me by my given name.

perpetuity in a home is a blanket for the cold years that come with age.

Blessed be those souls who are glad! They are a salve for sorrow and fatigue. A sun in days of darkness, a joy in sorrow, a ray of heaven shining through the uncertainness of earth.

If the physical perfection of childhood could last, what a possesssion it would be for humanity!

A great magazine is sort of a net for ability.

The world is filled with heroes and wannabes, so let me just play the villain.

It takes time to develop a sense of humor, shared world views.

I know what I want, but I'm not allowed to pick a favorite.If I was to say one guy, that guy would be feeling like 'I got this,' and I want everybody to have a chance.

I think you either get along with Lars [von Trier] or you really don't and I really got along with him. I wasn't scared because I talked to Bryce Dallas Howard about Lars.

[To write poems] I think it's important to do research, and research mostly is going to come from books, so all of your reading is potentially helpful to your poetry.

Religion is such a belief of the Bible as maintains a living influence on the heart.

But dogs, which have no ability to sin nor moral conscience, do not have an ability to reject Jesus.

A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair.

From this day forward until the end of the world...we in it shall be remembered...we band of brothers.