Topaz was wonderfully patient - but sometimes I wonder if it is not only patience, but also a faint resemblance to cows.

The family - that dear octopus from whose tentacles we never quite escape, nor, in our inmost hearts, ever quite wish to.

I have found that sitting in a place where you have never sat before can be inspiring.

Noble deeds and hot baths are the best cures for depression.

Time takes the ugliness and horror out of death and turns it into beauty.

What is it about the English countryside — why is the beauty so much more than visual? Why does it touch one so?

Contemplation seems to be about the only luxury that costs nothing.

It's a beautiful sight to see good dancers doing simple steps. It's a painful sight to see beginners doing complicated patterns.

Ham with mustard is a meal of glory

Like many other much-loved humans, they believed that they owned their dogs, instead of realizing that their dogs owned them.

I suppose the best kind of spring morning is the best weather God has to offer.

Why it's simply impassible!Alice: Why, don't you mean impos

Start doing what you want to do. You will only get better with time. Or you’ll realize you want to be doing something else. Either way, one of those things is better than sitting & waiting!

And You win. Period.

Focus on doing small things consistently rather than a big thing once a while

I really enjoy my privacy and being able to walk my son to school every morning and pick him up every afternoon.

One's life should be sufficiently interesting to furnish entertainment in the record.

When you're listening to my album, I want you to know that things happen and eventually you get over it

I grew up in a military family, and there's something about that military-style uniform, all cleaned up, a brutal control effort the military necessarily breeds.

School buildings should be opened and used twenty four hours a day.

I remember when metal was something you really had to search out, and now I hear it on car commercials.