The most popular persons are those who take the world as it is who find the least fault.

The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value

Goodness comes out of people who bask in the sun, as it does out of a sweet apple roasted before the fire.

Lettuce is like conversation; it must be fresh and crisp, so sparkling that you scarcely notice the bitter in it.

It is fortunate that each generation does not comprehend its own ignorance. We are thus enabled to call our ancestors barbarous.

There is no moment of delight in any pilgrimage like the beginning of it.

To own a bit of ground, to scratch it with a hoe, to plant seeds, and watch the renewal of life - this is the commonest delight of the race, the most satisfactory thing a man can do.

Mud-pies gratify one of our first and best instincts. So long as we are dirty, we are pure.

A cynic might suggest as the motto of modern life this simple legend-"just as good as the real.

Perhaps nobody ever accomplishes all that he feels lies in him to do; but nearly every one who tries his power touches the walls of his being.

Nature is, in fact, a suggester of uneasiness, a promoter of pilgrimages and of excursions of the fancy which never come to any satisfactory haven.

He who cannot draw on three thousand years is living from hand to mouth.

You can't stop negative thoughts from coming in, but you can make sure they leave as quickly as they enter.

Deep down, it's all baseball, no matter what kind of geometrical shape you play it with.

I found what I was looking for at Langley. This was what a research mathematician did. I went to work every day for 33 years happy. Never did I get up and say I don't want to go to work.

My singing voice isn't like my speaking voice.

What is fear but courage's shadow?

It was like being in the eye of a hurricane. You'd wake up in a concert and think, Wow, how did I get here?

Anyone who imagines that all fruits ripen at the same time as the strawberries knows nothing about grapes.

Mike Holmes is insanely talented and his work bristles with the kind of humanity and insight that is rare in comics – or in humans, for that matter.

Singing and entertainment are now my first priority.