That larger vision is certain to make clear the value in our own lives of service to others.

If the world seems cold to you, kindle fires to warm it.

Whatever with the past has gone, The best is always yet to come.

He who plants a tree, plants a hope.

The peach-bud glows, the wild bee hums, and wind-flowers wave in graceful gladness.

A drop of water, if it could write out its own history, would explain the universe to us.

Like a plant that starts up in showers and sunshine and does not know which has best helped it to grow, it is difficult to say whether the hard things or the pleasant things did me the most good.

When April steps aside for May, Like diamonds all the rain-drops glisten; Fresh violets open every day: To some new bird each hour we listen.

Some of us must wait for the best human gifts until we come to heavenly places. Our natural desire for musical utterance is perhaps a prophecy that in a perfect world we shall all know how to sing.

Every true friend is a glimpse of God.

I defied the machinery to make me its slave. Its incessant discords could not drown the music of my thoughts if I would let them fly high enough.

She’s drunk dialing contractors ” Chloe said to Tara. “Someone should stop her.

We are never happy; we can only remember that we were so once.

The self is merely the lens through which we see others and the world.

There is something in statistics that makes it very similar to astrology.

We want to be the first in the field and Rolex should be seen as the one and only-the best.

Part of my becoming a vegetarian was that I would look at my burger, then look at my dogs, and I wasn't able to see a difference.

Drop your shrink and stop your drinkin', crunchy granola's neat.

I am the least jealous person I have ever met.

A bilingual marriage, by the way, is a great way to stay together for longer than you normally would because you can't understand each other very well.

Calumniators are those who have neither good hearts nor good understandings. We ought not to think ill of any one till we have palpable proof; and even then we should not expose them to others.