With all its sham, drudgery, and broken dreams, it is still a beautiful world.Be cheerful.Strive to be happy.

Avoid loud and aggressive persons, they are vexations to the spirit.

Whether or not it is clear to you, no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should.

It was a wonderful life. To have a stage play right in this room, with real people acting real parts.

For the music to be over so soon. For the music to be over when it had just begun. That was really sad.

The beauty comes with the balance. Everyone should find his own balance in his personal as well as his professional life. Once you do so, you will feel and look beautiful.

[With Photosynth,] all of those photos become linked together, and they make something emergent that's greater than the sum of the parts.

How happily, how happily, the flowers die away! / Oh! Could we but return to earth as easily as they.

Poetry is another space, like love, where we extend that extra credit to the writer.

My mother was an English teacher before she became a full-time mom, and a huge proponent of reading, so she made sure I was an early and vigorous reader.

Some refuse the loan of life to avoid the debt of death.

To lead is neither to push or pull.

No one should approach the temple of science with the soul of a money changer.