Why art thou but a nest of gloom While the bobolinks are singing?

It is the still, small voice that the soul heeds, not the deafening blasts of doom.

In Europe life is histrionic and dramatized, and in America, except when it is trying to be European, it is direct and sincere.

The secret of the man who is universally interesting is that he is universally interested.

A man never sees all that his mother has been to him until it's too late to let her know that he sees it.

He who sleeps in continual noise is wakened by silence.

The wars come and go in blood and tears; but whether they are bad wars, or what are comically called good wars, they are of one effect in death and sorrow.

What the American public wants in the theater is a tragedy with a happy ending.

Some people stay longer in an hour than others can in a week.

If we like a man's dream, we call him a reformer; if we don't like his dream, we call him a crank.

Wisdom and goodness are twin-born, one heart must hold both sisters, never seen apart.

I find endless sustenance in the creative. I freely drink from the fountain of knowledge. I'm forever the student - considered the teacher.

To shift your life in a desired direction, you must powerfully shift your subconscious.

Teachers thought I was stupid, parents believed I was retarded, lecturers assumed I took drugs but I was a writer.

I thought about being a teacher for three thousand years. It wouldn’t have made my Top Ten Things to Wish For list.

Ethics is a skill

Few tears are just the memoirs of indication, what you will go through in near future...

To most of us the real life is the life we do not lead.

Now, you mummy's darlings, get a rift on them boots. Definitely shine em, my little curly-headed lambs, for in our mob, war or no war, you die with clean boots on.

Obama really does recognize the threats that are out there; I think he understands the world. He understands the role of America in that troubled world.

God Almighty has set before me two great objects, the suppression of the slave trade and the reformation of manners (morality).