Wert thou all that I wish thee, great, glorious, and free, First flower of the earth and first gem of the sea.

Cards are war, in disguise of a sport.

All, all are gone, the old familiar faces.

The greatest pleasure I know, is to do a good action by stealth, and to have it found out by accident.

Here cometh April again, and as far as I can see the world hath more fools in it than ever.

I always arrive late at the office, but I make up for it by leaving early.

How some they have died, and some they have left me, And some are taken from me; all are departed; All, all are gone, the old familiar faces.

I have had playmates, I have had companions; In my days of childhood, in my joyful school days - All, all are gone, the old familiar faces.

A poor relation—is the most irrelevant thing in nature.

How convalescence shrinks a man back to his pristine stature! where is now the space, which he occupied so lately, in his own, in the family's eye?

For God's sake (I never was more serious) don't make me ridiculous any more by terming me gentle-hearted in print.

On grief. We know where we've been. We know where we want to be.

Love is a sacred self.

Life is a series of moments and moments are always changing, just like thoughts, negative and positive.

The way to get things done is not to mind who gets the credit for doing them.

Use the pain as fuel, as a reminder of your strength.

A growing number of Muslims in America, more than 40 percent are African-American

Grandchildren don't make a man feel old; it's the knowledge that he's married to a grandmother.

They eat, they crap, they sleep, and if they're crying they need to do one of the three and they're having trouble doing it. Real simple.

After so many changes, I realized I'd better cling to my own family and to what I've got right here.

In Montreal, where I taught in 1970, I met many people. The only ones who said to me they were Canadians, were Jews. All the rest were Scotts, Irish, English, French, Swedes.