The whole world of thought lay unexplored before me, - a world of which I had already caught large and tempting glimpses.

If the world seems cold to you, kindle fires to warm it.

Whatever with the past has gone, The best is always yet to come.

He who plants a tree, plants a hope.

The peach-bud glows, the wild bee hums, and wind-flowers wave in graceful gladness.

A drop of water, if it could write out its own history, would explain the universe to us.

Like a plant that starts up in showers and sunshine and does not know which has best helped it to grow, it is difficult to say whether the hard things or the pleasant things did me the most good.

When April steps aside for May, Like diamonds all the rain-drops glisten; Fresh violets open every day: To some new bird each hour we listen.

Some of us must wait for the best human gifts until we come to heavenly places. Our natural desire for musical utterance is perhaps a prophecy that in a perfect world we shall all know how to sing.

Every true friend is a glimpse of God.

I defied the machinery to make me its slave. Its incessant discords could not drown the music of my thoughts if I would let them fly high enough.

...there is a void in my guts which can only be filled by songs.

...Because I have a a serious medical condition. Gabe shook his head ruefully. It's called foot-in-mouth disease.

An honest man is a debtless man, he doesn't owe anyone anything.

If you can't change a situation, you can change your attitude toward it.

I have been on shop floors. I have talked to a lot of the companies that create jobs in South Carolina and across the country. And what they want is less regulation.

Every home is a house of learning either for good or otherwise.

The disconnection of Church and State was a master stroke for freedom and harmony.

High school is closer to the core of the American experience than anything else I can think of.

Nutella. I dig my spoon in and eat it straight out of the jar. I can easily go through one a week.

In the last analysis the entire field of psychology may reduce to biological electrochemistry.