Sometimes in life, as in literature, people get their just desserts. The greedy man loses everything because he cannot resist seeking more riches.

It's hard to be a dreamer sometimes. I'm tired.

She hands me an ornament of The Virgin Mary. "Pray to the Holy Mary, Mother of God!" I notice she has a gold chain round her neck. It has the holy cross and a shamrock

Blessed be agriculture! If one does not have too much of it.

There is overwhelming evidence that the higher the level of self-esteem, the more likely one will be to treat others with respect, kindness, and generosity.

What I like to do is try to make a difference with the work I do.

Further study of central nervous action, however, finds central inhibition too extensive and ubiquitous to make it likely that it is confined solely to the taxis of antagonistic muscles.

I don't read, much less follow, the valuations or predictions. I study the numbers.

It is one of the best traits of good people that they love where they pity. And this is truer of women than of men.

I only record songs that I really like and believe in and can sing with conviction.

Language is an old-growth forest of the mind.