The sunset caught me, turned the brush to copper,/ set the clouds/ to one great roof of flame/ above the earth.

But calm, white calm, was born into a swan.

When I dream, I am ageless.

Outwardly I am 83, but inwardly I am every age, with the emotions and experience of each period.

Only of one thing I am sure: when I dream I am always ageless.

I saw the lovely arch Of rainbow span the sky, The gold sun burning As the rain swept by.

there is something dangerous about mirrors. ... What dynamite we handle when we lift a mirror or bend towards one! I seldom do.

During much of my life, I was anxious to be what someone else wanted me to be. Now I have given up that struggle. I am what I am.

Little I ask And that little is not granted." There are few crumbs In this world any more.

To a life that seizes Upon content, Locality seems But accident.

At a touch, he explodes like a snapdragon into loud purrs.

Don't let yourself be amazed by the imagination of a writer and his words, writers are almost all the time in a love-hate relationship with words.

There's a name for people with an interest in the moon, " Alex said. "They're called lunatics.

Better know nothing than half-know many things.

Further, not only the United States, but the French, British, Germans and the United Nations all thought Hussein possessed weapons of mass destruction before the United States intervened.

The price of being oneself is so high and involves so much ruthlessness toward others (or what looks like ruthlessness in our duty-bound culture) that very few people can afford it.

Well, I think we tried very hard not to be overconfident, because when you get overconfident, that's when something snaps up and bites you.

He would use amphetamines to stay awake because he would have late night maneuvers that would go way into the early morning hours and he was given pills to stay up for the long hours.

I wish my parents had spent more time worrying about my education than me being a star.

A theme of digital success is keeping it simple.