To make the world a friendly place, one must show it a friendly face.

Continuous, unflagging effort, persistence and determination will win. Let not the man be discouraged who has these.

The most essential factor is persistence - the determination never to allow your energy or enthusiasm to be dampened by the discouragement that must inevitably come.

The ripest peach is highest on the tree

Tell you what I like the best - 'Long about knee-deep in June, 'Bout the time strawberries melts On the vine, - some afternoon Like to jes' git out and rest, And not work at nothin' else!

I love the horse from hoof to head. From head to hoof and tail to mane. I love the horse as I have said - From head to hoof and back again.

Think of him still as the same, I say, He is not dead, he is just - away.

O, it sets my heart a clickin' like the tickin' of a clock, when the frost is on the punkin and the fodder's in the shock.

O'er folded blooms On swirls of musk, The beetle booms adown the glooms And bumps along the dusk.

When I see a bird that walks like a duck and swims like a duck and quacks like a duck, I call that bird a duck.

It is no use to grumble and complain; It's just as cheap and easy to rejoice; When God sorts out the weather and sends rain - Why, rain's my choice.

I dream of giving birth to a child who will ask, Mother, what was war?

...I pluck every day from my sweater or chair, red hairs...strands of significance, traces of you in my life ...

Squeaking squirrels squandering away their square shares!

I admired so many things about you. Almost everything. But I don’t want to wind up like you. I don’t want to starve to death, all alone on some island inside my own head. Hopeless.

Destruction was calm, almost content- would he next break out in song like a Disney princess?

If I feel unhappy, I do mathematics to become happy. If I am happy, I do mathematics to keep happy.

If I had done everything I'm credited with, I'd be speaking to you from a laboratory jar at Harvard.

Hope & curiosity about the future seemed better than guarantees. The unknown was always so attractive to me...and still is.

The best way to have the last word is to apologize.

Every artist has his or her struggle to work out in their work. The more powerful the struggle, the more persuasive the art.