To your generation, I must represent the literary equivalent of tufted furniture and gas chandeliers.

There are two ways of spreading light: to be The candle or the mirror that reflects it.

The desire for symmetry, for balance, for rhythm in form as well as in sound, is one of the most inveterate of human instincts.

To visit Morocco is still like turning the pages of some illuminated Persian manuscript all embroidered with bright shapes and subtle lines.

One can remain alive ... if one is unafraid of change, insatiable in intellectual curiosity interested in big things and happy in small ways.

If only we'd stop trying to be happy, we could have a pretty good time.

The real loneliness is living among all these kind people who only ask one to pretend!

Nothing is more perplexing to a man than the mental process of a woman who reasons her emotions.

One of the great things about travel is you find out how many good, kind people there are.

Set wide the window. Let me drink the day.

Life is always either; a tight -rope or a feather-bed . — Give me the tightrope.

In crime and enmity they lie Who sin and tell us love can die, Who say to us in slander's breath That love belongs to sin and death.

Mistakes are like bad loves, the more you learn from them, the more you wish they’d never happened.

[My mother] was the strength of our family, and I didn't realize that until I got a little bit older.

Houston is kind of a melting pot. There are many different cultures and ethnicities represented out there.

Then up he got with a light heart, free from all his troubles, and walked on till he reached his mother's house, and told her how very easy the road to good luck was.

Plutarch says very finely that a man should not allow himself to hate even his enemies.

Expensive, well-executed, and familiar ads convince the investors, as nothing in the black and white tables of assets and debits can, that the company is important and prosperous.

Making the big shot wouldn't feel so good if missing it didn't feel so awful

Of all treasures of knowledge, the most vital is the knowledge of God, his existence, powers, love, and promises.

Your thighs are appletrees whose blossoms touch the sky. Your knees are a southern breeze.