Whatever comes from the brain carries the hue of the place it came from, and whatever comes from the heart carries the heat and color of its birthplace.

Where we love is home - home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts.

Rough work, iconoclasm, but the only way to get at truth.

Youth fades, love droops, the leaves of friendship fall; A mother's secret hope outlives them all.

Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness.

A man may fulfill the object of his existence by asking a question he cannot answer, and attempting a task he cannot achieve.

It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.

Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow.

Man has his will, but woman has her way.

Many people die with their music still in them. Why is this so? Too often it is because they are always getting ready to live. Before they know it, time runs out.

Beware how you take away hope from any human being.

Satan will always provide a witness to where you have been, in order to challenge your fate.

When the noise is gone, and the air is still . . .prepare for survival.

America has never quite forgiven Europe for having been discovered somewhat earlier in history than itself.

For myself I hold no preferences among flowers, so long as they are wild, free, spontaneous. Bricks to all greenhouses! Black thumb and cutworm to the potted plant!

If the 1980s were about quality and the 1990s were about reengineering, then the 2000s will be about velocity.

Love, like the cold bath, is never negative, it seldom leaves us where it finds us; if once we plunge into it, it will either heighten our virtues, or inflame our vices.

God is not interested in you doing this for Him, He is interested in doing things THROUGH you.

You do not play hockey for good seasons. You play to win the Stanley Cup. It has to be the objective.

One hand washeth another, both the face. [Lat., Una mano lava l'altra, ed ambedue lavano il volto.]

People don't come to a comedy club simply to hear someone's thoughts, no matter how profound.