Unnoticed, the passage has occurred; as I brood, autumn dusk dewdrops fall on my pillow. The voices of insects and the deer by the fence, as one, disturb me to tears this autumn dusk.

In snowbound, voiceless, mountain depths, to herald spring, pine trees sound in tune.

Are you sure/That we are awake? It seems to me/That yet we sleep, we dream

Friendship is a contract in which we render small services in expectation of big ones.

Gorbachev gave us freedom of worship and freedom of speech and freedom to see what was going on and freedom to vote, but that freedom won't last unless it is underpinned by economic freedom.

For your born writer, nothing is so healing as the realization that he has come upon the right word.

Kids don’t do what their parents say-they do what they see their parents do. So who was to blame here?

It comes a time in your life that you will no longer live for yourself anymore. You never know how much a person can mean to you until one comes into your life, and changes it for the best.

There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book.

(What makes his world so hard to see clearly is not its strangeness but its usualness).Familiarity can blind you too.

In the plays of Shakespeare man appears as he is, made up of a crowd of passions which contend for the mastery over him, and govern him in turn.

Everybody dies, Sally. The thing is to die well.