a committee, of course, exists for the purpose of damping enthusiasms.

Sometimes I pose, but sometimes I pose as posing.

Family jokes, though rightly cursed by strangers, are the bond that keeps most families alive.

Music is the ethereal connection between this world and the other.

We travel because we do not know. We know that we do not know the best before we start. That is why we start. But we forget that we do not know the worst either. That is why we come back.

There are some people who can never see a little cloud of fantasy float across the horizon of their dreams without building a heavy castle in the air upon it, and bringing it to earth.

Call no man a foe, but never love a stranger.

The sun was like a word written between the sea and the sky, a word that was swallowed up by the sea before any man had time to read it.

The dense and godly wear consistency as a flower, the imaginative fling it joyfully behind them.

Curiosity needs food as much as any of us, and dies soon if denied it.

The Law likes to be argued with. Take away words and where is the Law? Silence always annoys it.

Success certainly isn’t achievement of popularity. Success in God’s kingdom is loving God, loving one another, and being faithful to what He’s called us to do.

The leader is always learning new things and gaining new insights.

The heart has reasons which reason cannot understand.

The real offence as she ultimately perceived was her having a mind of her own at all. Her mind was to be his - attached to his own like a small garden plot to a deer park.

Ted is smart and good-looking, but he doesn't use it to good effect, like a rich person that never gives to charity.

I don't grasp things this early in the day. I mean, I hear voices, all right, but I can't pick out the verbs.

Stupidity,--unconscious ignorance.

Problems are here in this world so that we can realize our purpose in this world.

The world is in motion, as it seems.

It would be really embarrassing to introduce yourself as somebody who makes beauty.