Where's the snow That fell the year that's fled--where's the snow?

There's luck in odd numbers.

Circumstances are the rulers of the weak; they are but the instruments of the wise.

Come live in my heart, and pay no rent.

The neck on which diamonds might have worthily sparkled, will look less tempting when the biting winter has hung icicles there for gems.

When once the itch of literature comes over a man, nothing can cure it but the scratching of a pen. But if you have not a pen, I suppose you must scratch any way you can.

A baby was sleeping, Its mother was weeping.

Better to be safe than sorry.

I'll seek a four leaved shamrock in all thy fairy dells, And if I find the charmed leaves, oh, how I'll weave my spells!

Reproof on her lip, but a smile in her eye.

There was a place in childhood that I remember well, And there a voice of sweetest tone bright fairy tales did tell.

You should train disciples and followers to work and perform better than you did

What a man loves may be his ruin, but what a man ruins he can never truly love.

There is no school or teacher more valuable than your own experiences.

Seek truth from facts.

The first thing I ever heard about synthesizers, they were being used in rock.

Proceed with much prayer, and your way will be made plain.

True security lies in the unrestrained embrace of insecurity - in the recognition that we never really stand on solid ground, and never can.

The French are the wittiest, the most charming, and up to the present, at all events, the least musical race on Earth.

I wrote songs all my life, where anyone wanted to hear them or not.

I'm a very lucky man. It's a beautiful thing for a writer, to see people allowing your words to enter their own unconscious and their souls.