There are two seasonal diversions that can ease the bite of any winter. One is the January thaw. The other is the seed catalogues.

Year's end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us.

All walking is discovery. On foot we take the time to see things whole.

No winter lasts forever; no spring skips its turn.

There it is, fog, atmospheric moisture still uncertain in destination, not quite weather and not altogether mood, yet partaking of both.

As I stood and watched the mists slowly rising this morning I wondered what view was more beautiful than this.

Summer ends, and Autumn comes, and he who would have it otherwise would have high tide always and a full moon every night.

You can't be suspicious of a tree, or accuse a bird or a squirrel of subversion or challenge the ideology of a violet.

A snowdrift is a beautiful thing - if it doesn't lie across the path you have to shovel or block the road that leads to your destination.

If you would know strength and patience, welcome the company of trees.

A woodland in full color is awesome as a forest fire, in magnitude at least, but a single tree is like a dancing tongue of flame to warm the heart.

The only things worth seeing are beyond what you can actually see.

Gods are what people worship. Men are what die.

I was hurting him even though I was in love with him, and he knows that I do. Maybe this is what love does to you.

ECCENTRICITY, n. A method of distinction so cheap that fools employ it to accentuate their incapacity.

No one is truly free, they are a slave to wealth, fortune, the law, or other people restraining them from acting according to their will.

Mr. Lincoln was not only a great President, but a great man - too great to be small in anything. In his company I was never in any way reminded of my humble origin, or of my unpopular color.

The biggest threat facing America is terrorists with weapons of mass destruction.

Nothing is necessary except God, and nothing is less necessary than pain.

Publishing a book is like stuffing a note into a bottle and hurling it into the sea.

As a young girl, if you do something funny - especially if you're Jewish - someone says, 'Oh, have you seen Gilda Radner?'