Tears are the showers that fertilize this world.

O fateful flower beside the rill- The Daffodil, the daffodil!

A healthful hunger for a great idea is the beauty and blessedness of life.

When sparrows build and the leaves break forth My old sorrow wakes and cries.

Youth! youth! how buoyant are thy hopes! they turn, like marigolds, toward the sunny side.

I have lived to thank God that all my prayers have not been answered.

Crowds of bees are giddy with clover Crowds of grasshoppers skip at our feet, Crowds of larks at their matins hang over, Thanking the Lord for a life so sweet.

Her face betokened all things dear and good, The light of somewhat yet to come was there Asleep, and waiting for the opening day, When childish thoughts, like flowers would drift away.

And bitter waxed the fray; Brother with brother spake no word When they met in the way.

Man is the miracle in nature. God Is the One Miracle to man.

The moon looks upon many night flowers; the night flowers see but one moon.

Flying in a modern jet airplane doses the human with levels of radiation comparable to those found in nuclear disaster zones.

I think a film is a failure if it doesn't have an emotional effect. That's the film's failure. Not if it doesn't deliver a message, but if it doesn't have emotional effect or visceral effect.

Stone walls confine a tinker; cold iron binds a witch; but a musician's music can never be fettered, for it lives first in her heart and mind.

Curiosity is the beginning of all wisdom.

You can't escape the puking sphinx.

Peacocks have the bright feathers. Fish have the long tails. Women have the mall.

Every paper girl needs at least one string.

In order to accomplish more than you ever have before, you must do more than you have ever done before.

Because He freely owned my guilt I may freely own my sin. Guilty as charged, and yet, not guilty at all.

The moon develops the imagination, as chemicals develop photographic images.