Until you have heard the whippoowill, either nearby or in the fain - distance, you have not experienced summer night.

To be without a dog is worse than being without a song.

her eyes are unfathomable to me, hostile, even, as if she had removed herself to a place where I cannot reach her - somewhere I cannot know.

The world is not magic — and that’s the most magical thing about it.

I believe in unconditional love and equality. Jesus Christ exemplified these qualities.

He who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry is a true poet, though he has never written a line in all his life.

The emotional reaction in the peak experience has a special flavor of wonder, of awe, of reverence, of humility and surrender before the experience as before something great.

If I had my way...We would lock ourselves away from that madness out there.

Leadership is knowing what to do next, knowing why that's important, and knowing how to bring the appropriate resources to bear on the need at hand.

We are taking challenges and turning them into opportunities by developing homegrown, local energy production to become independent from foreign sources.

When I first started auditioning I would stutter a lot because I was so terribly frightened.

We want the education by which character is formed, strength of mind is increased, the intellect is expanded, and by which one can stand on one's own feet.