Who would not rather trust and be deceived?

How cruelly sweet are the echoes that start, when memory plays an old tune on the heart!

Exaggeration misleads the credulous and offends the perceptive.

I prize the soul that slumbers in a quiet eye.

On what strange stuff Ambition feeds!

Though language forms the preacher 'Tis "good works" make the man.

Oh! Much may be done by defying The ghosts of Despair and Dismay And much may be gained by relying On "Where there's a Will There's a Way."

The span of life is waning fast Beware unthinking youth beware! Thy soul's eternity depends Upon the record moments bear!

There's a magical tie to the land of our home, which the heart cannot break, though the footsteps may roam.

For it is the duty of an astronomer to compose the history of the celestial motions through careful and expert study.

I owe everything I have to them when I'm out there on the mound. But I owe the fans nothing and they owe me nothing when I am not pitching.

Humankind differs from the animals only by a little and most people throw that away.

I can be a nice person, but if someone is messing with someone I care about, the tougher side comes out a little more.

Most souls are into power on the earth. Most souls here are developing their occult body.

As I have said, the best Bush strategy is to put Congress on TV as often as possible.

When the year turns, there are bells on the wind. All the old years fall on the ground in lights.

Sometimes it takes a natural disaster to reveal a social disaster.

It was important for me to have a partner who was ballsy.

The finest command of language is often shown by saying nothing.