The bird That glads the night had cheer'd the listening groves with sweet complainings.

Hail, gentle Dawn! mild blushing goddess, hail!Rejoic'd I see thy purple mantle spreadO'er half the skies, gems pave thy radiant way,And orient pearls from ev'ry shrub depend.

Fortune is like a widow won,And truckles to the bold alone.

For the next inn he spurs amain, In haste alights, and skuds away, But time and tide for no man stay.

Let all the learned say what they can, 'tis ready money makes the man.

Getting fired from work gives you the zeal to make your own inventions

This is a bad story.”“Sorry. I’m really sorry. I shouldn’t have told you.”“No, you should, ” I say.“But—”“I don’t want there to be bad stories and me not know them.

In the rural South, 'Bubba' is like how people say 'dude' in California. It's a name for a regular Southern man. I know a Chinese Bubba, a black Bubba.

Teens in the '90s had the same basic desires as they do now.

When you come fact to face with love, and before the sun sets, you become someone you didn't used to be. It makes the old things new. Makes dead things live. Love makes you into something better.

You want to know something? We are still in the Dark Ages. The Dark Ages--they haven't ended yet.

When I say to a parent, "read to a child", I don't want it to sound like medicine. I want it to sound like chocolate.

He who does not mind his belly, will hardly mind anything else.

One of the most important reasons for studying history is that virtually every stupid idea that is in vogue today has been tried before and proved disastrous before, time and again.

When you're young, you think you can do anything, and we thought.