The vastest earthly Day Is shrunken small By one Defaulting Face Behind a Pall.

Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul - and sings the tunes without the words - and never stops at all.

I am out with lanterns, looking for myself.

We turn not older with years but newer every day.

I hope you love birds too. It is economical. It saves going to heaven.

If you take care of the small things, the big things take care of themselves. You can gain more control over your life by paying closer attention to the little things.

I must go in, the fog is rising.

A good roommate may be the single most important thing to have when one is away at school.

Bring me the sunset in a cup.

Saying nothing... sometimes says the most.

Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough.

The imagination is the goal of history. I see culture as an effort to literally realize our collective dreams.

I was making frequent use of cocaine at that time ... I had been the first to recommend the use of cocaine, in 1885, and this recommendation had brought serious reproaches down on me.

Man is only great when he acts from passion.

When we see beyond self, we no longer cling to happiness. And when we stop clinging, we can begin to be happy.

Extraordinary observations require extraordinary evidence to make them believable.

The United States Constitution grants education decision authority to the states and localities not to the president of the United States.

A man for whom accident discovers sense, is not a rational being. A man only is so who understands, who distinguishes, who tests it.

Anything, everything, can be learned if you can just get yourself in a little patch of real ground, real nature, real wood, real anything ? and just sit still and watch.

Everything that occurs in your life is part of God's plan to wake you up.

The novelist's ambition is not to do something better than his predecessors but to see what they did not see, say what they did not say.