There is peace in the swamp, though the quiet is Death

The delicate thought, that cannot find expression, For ruder speech too fair, That, like thy petals, trembles in possession, And scatters on the air.

A bird in the hand is a certainty, but a bird in the bush may sing.

Don't be too quickTo break bad habits: better stick,Like the Mission folk, to your arsenic.

Never a lip is curved with pain that can't be kissed into smiles again.

The creator who could put a cancer in a believer's stomach is above being interfered with by prayers.

Never a tear bedims the eye That time and patience will not dry.

If, of all words of tongue and pen, The saddest are, It might have been,' More sad are these we daily see: 'It is, but hadn't ought to be!'

The dominant expression of a child is gravity.

For the glory born of Goodness Never dies, And its flag is not half-masted In the skies.

Each lost day has its patron saint!

Her lips were drawn to his like a moth to a flame.

I am not metrosexual. I am not macho. I am normal. I don't even wear nail paint.

An assembly of great men is the greatest fool upon earth.

French is the language of diplomacy. Spanish is the language of bureaucracy.

Every democratic system evolves its own conventions. It is not only the water but the banks which make the river.

No man suffers injustice without learning, vaguely but surely, what justice is.

My parents are private investigators for God's sake.

I know when I go to a movie I want to experience something, whether to laugh, to cry, to feel bad.

So much of starting a business or affecting change is the confidence and courage to simply try.

There are no 'good' or 'bad' people. Some are a little better or a little worse, but all are activated more by misunderstanding than malice. A blindness to what is going on in each other's hearts.