Yon rosebuds in the morning-dew, how pure amang the leaves sae green!

Oh would some power the gift give us, to see ourselves as others see us!

My heart 's in the Highlands, my heart is not here; My heart 's in the Highlands a-chasing the deer.

Now's the day and now's the hour.

Gie me ae spark o' Nature's fire, That's a' the learning I desire.

There is no such uncertainty as a sure thing.

The snowdrop and primrose our woodlands adorn, and violets bathe in the wet o' the morn.

The best-laid plans of mice and men often go awry.

The best-laid schemes o' mice an' men, Gang aft a-gley, And leave us nought but grief and pain, For promised joy.

Dare to be honest and fear no labor.

But pleasures are like poppies spread, You seize the flower, it's bloom is shed; Or, like the snow-fall in the river, A moment white, then melts forever.

Some ghosts or felt presences may simply be the essence of another living person projected outward while sleeping.

What humanity owes to personalities like Buddha, Moses, and Jesus ranks for me higher than all the achievements of the enquiring and constructive mind.

I lived for 10 years in Los Angeles, and the one element that surpasses everything else - that you are very conscious of - is fear. You can smell it.

In the ardor of pursuit men soon forget the goal from which they start.

I care more about the people than about the company. That's why I don't want to own it. I don't want to run a business. People do it better than I do.

I like to stuff myself at Thanksgiving, not turkeys.

The question isn't 'Do we worship?' The question is 'Who (or what) do we worship?'

I don't know what would have happened to me if I hadn't been able to hear.

Every sin is an attempt to fly from emptiness.

I never saw a department store Santa as a kid. My mother was afraid to take me.