She had for so many years been trying to be like other people, that she was now like nothing in heaven or earth.

Saddle your dreams before you ride em.

If you stop to be kind, you must swerve often from your path.

Green is the fresh emblem of well founded hopes. In blue the spirit can wander, but in green it can rest.

Nature's music is never over; her silences are pauses, not conclusions.

The well of Providence is deep. It's the buckets we bring to it that are small.

The past is only the present become invisible and mute; and because it is invisible and mute, its memorized glances and its murmurs are infinitely precious. We are tomorrow's past.

For the more a soul conforms to the sanity of others, the more does it become insane.

Autumn is full of leave-taking. In September the swallows are chattering of destination and departure like a crowd of tourists.

It's the folks that depend on us for this and for the other that we most do miss.

Give me good digestion, Lord, And also something to digest; but where and how that something comes I leave to Thee, who knoweth best.

I suppose the latest thing is to sit back and let Mr. Nobody from Nowhere make love to your wife.

If you find yourself engaged in an argument that only stirs anger in the heart, quickly make peace and carry on.

'Chef' doesn't mean that you're the best cook, it simply means 'boss.'

One drop of hatred in your soul will spread and discolor everything like a drop of black ink in white milk.

It's easy to have a complicated idea. It's very hard to have a simple idea.

Hokahey! Today is a good day to die.

I do characters. I believe in that. I think people are interesting. Now, everybody that you meet in New York City thinks that their life is a movie.

Every evil in the bud is easily crushed: as it grows older, it becomes stronger.

It is much easier to conquer a country than to conquer ourselves.

Eleven would have been the best time. Eleven is just about the best age for almost everything.