The green grass floweth like a stream Into the oceans's blue.

Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind.

Fate loves the fearless.

The devil loves nothing better than the intolerance of reformers.

All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.

One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning.

Light is the symbol of truth.

A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.

Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof.

The brain can be easy to buy, but the heart never comes to market.

Each day the world is born anew for him who takes it rightly.

Maybe all of us at Hailsam had little secrets like that -- little private nooks created out of thin air where we could go off alone without fears and longing.

You know what the chain of command is? It's the chain I go get and beat ya with until you realize who's in ruttin' command here!

Your temperature's normal, though I'd say it's the only thing about you that is.

Think about a dog’s ability to forgive. This to me is love.

My whole life I've been an over-giver. My general operating policy has always been, 'If it belongs to me, don't worry: You can have it!'

I never had any interest in being involved with the Boy Scouts.

People who agree with you already agree with you -- you don't change peoples minds.

I have a file of letters and bits of ephemera from friends who have died. I have had lots of friends who died of AIDS.

And if your head explodes with dark forebodings too I'll see you on the dark side of the moon.

Make your lives extraordinary.