Wrecked on the lee shore of age.

Tact is after all a kind of mind reading.

Look bravely up into the sky, And be content with knowing That God wished for a buttercup Just here, where you are growing.

My childhood is very vivid to me, and I don't feel very different now from the way I felt then. It would appear I am the very same person, only with wrinkles.

A story should be managed so that it should suggest interesting things to the reader instead of the author's doing all the thinking for him, and setting it before him in black and white.

The growth of true friendship may be a lifelong affair.

I've found that people who look at things as they are, and not as they wish them to be, are the ones who succeed.

It seems to me like stealing, for men and women to live in the world and do nothing to make it better.

When she walked...she stretched out long and thin like a little tiger, and held her head high to look over the grass as if she were treading the jungle.

The warm sun kissed the earthTo consecrate thy birth,And from his close embraceThy radiant faceSprang into sight,A blossoming delight.

In the life of each of us there is a place remote and islanded, and given to endless regret or secret happiness.

Each of us views life through a different lens. What we think is colored by the baggage we carry and what we perceive is how we live.

Every great and original writer in proportion as he is great and original must himself create the taste by which he is to be relished.

Personally, I need a high level of physical fitness in order to feel at ease.

Sometimes I just want to sit and write at a clean table and not get paint all over my hands.

Say what you will about the south, but in North Carolina a hot dog is free to swing anyway it wishes.

I'm a family guy. A lot of my songs are inspired by my kids. Simple relationships. Watching them grow up, watching them share experiences with me and vice versa.

[Adolf Hitler] was very close-mouthed, he was the most private individual I have ever seen, very secretive.

Some people can rap, some can sing, some can write, some can do all of the above.

You beat Cancer by how you live.

It is important to note that there are no age limitations on who can donate organs and tissue. Newborns as well as senior citizens have been organ donors.