The snow again. White, white net of beauty, net of dream, trapping the earth, trapping the helpless heart of life.

But one had to go back to the beginning of things, always. Trace the thread of life - find the knot - untangle it.

The lush green of the fields became a rich gold that swayed sturdily under the wind and fell at last before the hands of the reapers.

it was a sly trick of God's to give a man work to do - it kept him from asking questions that God couldn't answer.

I don't see as it matters much how well you mean if it's harm you're doin'.

By mid-morning a rain as fine as silk spills was weaving over the lake.

A false vision was better than none.

Ah, life, life, how madly, how cruelly it raced along your pulses!

There was nothing so real on the prairie as winter, nothing so memorable.

There is too much doing - too little being! When we begin to get strenuous, life begins to grow intolerable.

Time, designing slowly, swiftly; Time, destroying slowly, swiftly; Time holding, possessing the earth in its tender indifference.

A Coy Aversion...a fluttertoo shyto be seen...

Life before consciousness was like blank paper, so be it.

Now and again he spoke to those that served him and thanked them in their own language. They smiled at him and said laughing: 'Here is a jewel among hobbits!

It was always disappointing to see that what I could really master in terms of form boiled down to so little.

Most of these - most people's stage personas are created out of the flotsam and jetsam of their internal geography.

The man who voyages strange seas must of necessity be a little unsure of himself. It is the man with the flashy air of knowing everything, who is always with it, that we should beware of.

We must always speak of the efficacy of the ministry in such a manner that the entire praise of the work may be reserved for God alone.

Triumphant Tories, and desponding Whigs, Forget their feuds, and join to save their wigs.

Mary Matalin and James Carville have given me more hope when it comes to love and relationships than any romance book or chick flick ever.

It's all complete instinct and intuition, and that's extremely difficult to teach.