To have known how to change the past into a few saddened smiles-is this not to master the future?

There is a courage of happiness as well as a courage of sorrow.

Do we not all spend the greater part of our lives under the shadow of an event that has not yet come to pass?.

An act of goodness is of itself an act of happiness.

Happiness is rarely absent; it is we that know not of its presence.

If the bee disappeared off the face of the earth, man would only have four years left to live.

How strangely do we diminish a thing as soon as we try to express it in words.

The living are just the dead on holiday

At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard the past.

We are never the same with others as when we are alone. We are different, even when we are in the dark with them.

Many a happiness in life, a many a disaster, is due to chance alone; but the peace within us can never be governed by chance.

The haft of the arrow had been feathered with one of the eagles own plumes. We often give our enemies the means of our own destruction.

Do not ever read books about versification: no poet ever learnt it that way. If you are going to be a poet, it will come to you naturally and you will pick up all you need from reading poetry.

I feel like something magical is going to happen, and I feel like all the stars have finally lined up perfectly for Angie Stone.

The road to life is rocky, and you may stumble too. So while you point your fingers, someone else is judging you.

If the common man in the past had a grave respect for property, it may conceivably have been because he sometimes had some of his own.

How beautiful the silent hour, when morning and evening thus sit together, hand in hand, beneath the starless sky of midnight!

Give me twenty-six soldiers of lead and I will conquer the world.

The fun thing about getting older is finding younger people to mentor.

Well over fifty years ago I was making radio loudspeakers and radio sets in Rochester, New York; pretty young and inexperienced; but we survived the depression.

But there was nothing I could do with the emotion really. It just went away after a while.