To follow foolish precedents, and wink With both our eyes, is easier than to think.

Variety's the very spice of life, That gives it all its flavor.

Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; wisdom is humble that it knows no more.

...So let us welcome peaceful evening in.

An idler is a watch that wants both hands; As useless if it goes as when it stands.

Grief is itself a medicine.

How various his employments whom the world Calls idle; and who justly in return Esteems that busy world an idler too!

Knowledge and wisdom, far from being one, Have oft-times no connection. Knowledge dwells In heads replete with thoughts of other men; Wisdom in minds attentive to their own.

God moves in a mysterious way, His wonders to perform. He plants his footsteps in the sea, and rides upon the storm.

I pity them greatly, but I must be mum, for how could we do without sugar and rum?

Who loves a garden loves a greenhouse too.

The most assured way to participate in a future is to anticipate it

But I feel more real when I'm around her. Like I'm not fading.

Don't judge people by what others tell you

The only things in my life that compatibly exists with this grand universe are the creative works of the human spirit.

If I traveled to the end of the rainbow as Dame Fortune did intend, Murphy would be there to tell me the pot's at the other end.

He's not just the most powerful man in labor," Robert Kennedy had said in the wake of Hoffa's announcement; "he's the most powerful man in the country, next to the President.

Humankind won't find peace as long as we're treating feeling animals as if they were so many blocks of wood.

Change is often rejuvenating, invigoration, fun ... and necessary.

Twenty thousand birds moved away from me as one, like a ground-hugging white cloud, clucking softly.

We're releasing hardened criminals from jails all over California. They don't have the money. They don't have the room anymore. The jails are overflowing so we gotta get rid of somebody.