The anger of a person who is strong, can always bide its time.

Continuous, unflagging effort, persistence and determination will win. Let not the man be discouraged who has these.

The most essential factor is persistence - the determination never to allow your energy or enthusiasm to be dampened by the discouragement that must inevitably come.

To make the world a friendly place, one must show it a friendly face.

The ripest peach is highest on the tree

Tell you what I like the best - 'Long about knee-deep in June, 'Bout the time strawberries melts On the vine, - some afternoon Like to jes' git out and rest, And not work at nothin' else!

I love the horse from hoof to head. From head to hoof and tail to mane. I love the horse as I have said - From head to hoof and back again.

Think of him still as the same, I say, He is not dead, he is just - away.

O, it sets my heart a clickin' like the tickin' of a clock, when the frost is on the punkin and the fodder's in the shock.

O'er folded blooms On swirls of musk, The beetle booms adown the glooms And bumps along the dusk.

When I see a bird that walks like a duck and swims like a duck and quacks like a duck, I call that bird a duck.

It’s happened before. It’s all happened before. History is worth shit.

In an hour, you'll be in hell or glory.

I mean by a picture a beautiful romantic dream of something that never was, never will be - in a light better than any light that ever shone - in a land no one can define, or remember, only desire

Women are like tea bags: put them in hot water and they get stronger.

Essentially, wines are fermented grape juice, so I'm trying to make the point that the wine world is about scores and marketing and kind of creating a scarce resource where they don't really exist.

Christ didn't die just so you could make to heaven; He lives so you can make it through earth!

Even people that were never interested in science fiction are interested in STAR TREK.

Bad critics judge a work of art by comparing it to pre-existing theories. They always go wrong when confronted with a masterpiece because masterpieces make their own rules.

I am very interested in place, and the influences of place on characters.