Trying will do anything in this world.

Beauty is a delightful prejudice.

Sleeping we imagine what awake we wish; D ogs dream of bones, and fishermen of fish.

Faults are beauties in a lovers eye.

Verily, great grace may go with a little gift; and precious are all things that come from friends.

Cicala to cicala is dear, and ant to ant, and hawks to hawks, but to me the muse and song.

Cats will always lie soft.

Men shall look on thee and murmur to each other, "Lo! how small Was the gift, and yet how precious! Friendship 's gifts are priceless all.

Age overtakes us all; Our temples first; then on o'er cheek and chin, Slowly and surely, creep the frosts of Time. Up and do somewhat, ere thy limbs are sere.

Man will ever stand in need of man.

Reflect, ere you spurn me, that youth at his sides Wears wings; and once gone, all pursuit he derides.

although the stress response was involuntary, the relaxation response required practice.[6]

A picture lives by companionship. It dies by the same token. It is therefore risky to send it out into the world. How often it must be impaired by the eyes of the unfeeling.

The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are. You trade in your reality for a role. You give up your ability to feel, and in exchange, put on a mask.

My fondest hope is that 'Roots' may start black, white, brown, red, yellow people digging back for their own roots. Man, that would make me feel 90 feet tall.

Each and every day had its challenges.

People speak with enormous pomposity and arrogance about music.

Everyone says you should get a photo taken of yourself while you're pregnant. I've got a film [War of the Worlds]. It'll be nice for my daughter, too, to look at one day. She was in it.

Ordinary people can spread good and bad information about brands faster than marketers.

I like emotions, but I really don't like sentimentality, and I don't like when things break their spell.