There is nothing in the world more peaceful than apple - leaves with an early moon.

We talk of sunshine and moonshine, but not of cloud-shine, which is yet one of the illuminations of our skies. A shining cloud is one of the most majestic of all secondary lights.

Happiness is not a matter of events; it depends upon the tides of the mind.

If there is a look of human eyes that tells of perpetual loneliness, so there is also the familiar look that is the sign of perpetual crowds.

The sense of humor has other things to do than to make itself conspicuous in the act of laughter.

Assuredly it would be a pity if laughter should ever become, like rhetoric and the arts, a habit.

My day-mind can endure / Upright, in hope, all it must undergo. / But O, afraid, unsure, / My night-mind waking lies too low, too low.

A child is beset with long traditions. And his infancy is so old, so old, that the mere adding of years in the life to follow will not seem to throw it further back -- it is already so far.

I come from nothing: but from where come the undying thoughts I bear?

Rich meanings of the prophet-Spring adorn, / Unseen, this colorless sky of folded showers, / And folded winds...

No mirror keeps its glances.

It would be wrong to refuse to face the fact that everything is fundamentally sick and sad.

There is value in being free and spontaneous but the greatest power comes from seeing and using what results from that freedom.

A man who was fond of wine was offered some grapes at dessert after dinner. "Much obliged," said he, pushing the plate aside, "I am not accustomed to take my wine in pills."

He who remains calm while those around him panic probably doesn't know what's going on.

Nice characters are boring!

If you can't make a mistake, you can't make anything.

I've gotten tons of awards and I believe when it's my time to get a Grammy, I'll get a Grammy.

Never have hatred toward any religion.

If you've read something brilliant, it's good. It's good to look out the window and see what's going on in the world.

There is one fundamental message that we want to go out from this place to every nook and cranny of our country: There should be no new tax collection without an election.