The attempt is all the wedge that splits its knotty way betwixt the impossible and possible.

There's nothing so kingly as kindness, and nothing so royal as truth.

Coldly and capriciously the slanting sunbeams fall.

Even for the dead I will not bind my soul to grief, death cannot long divide; for is it not as if the rose that climbed my garden wall had bloomed the other side?

Every life is meant to help all lives; each man should live for all men's betterment.

How many lives we live in one, And how much less than one, in all.

My soul is full of whispered song,-My blindness is my sight;The shadows that I feared so longAre full of life and light.

Women and men in the crowd meet and mingle, Yet with itself every soul standeth single.

Shut up the door: who loves me must not look / Upon the withered world, but haste to bring / His lighted candle, and his story-book, / And live with me the poetry of spring.

He who loves best his fellow-man, is loving God the holiest way he can.

Yea, when mortality dissolves, Shall I not meet thine hour unawed? My house eternal in the heavens Is lighted by the smile of God!

Resignation is what kills people. Once they've rejected resignation, humans gain the privilege of making humanity their footpath.

I think it's best to keep the controversy on the pages and not in our relationships.

A pumpkin lives but once a year when someone sets its soul afire and on that night it stirs up fear until its flame is snuffed.But e'en one night of eerie light is fright enough.

It's very difficult to make comedy work; I think it's a very underrated genre.

Live with honor and follow your conscience.

History's just one darn thing after another.

If it doesn't rot, it's not real food.

The ability to just sit there. That's being a person.

The factor stringing together individuals, society and nature is missing from today's educational system. That factor is spiritual values.

So I got into growing grapes, not realizing that there was a heck of a lot more to it than meets the eye.