my friends plunged into a borderless sea of reminiscences and personal news.

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.

Everyone you have ever loved in your life becomes a part of your soul. They never leave. They're always inside you, and you can bring them out whenever you want.

Life is a great wonder.

The effort you put forth in whatever you do is directly proportional to the results you produce.

I think that talent, good songwriting and passion, will always outlast hype.

The easily embarrassed doesn't learn

Public work does not cut into personal creativity. They are streams from the same river but with different destinations.

I don't choose what I compose. It chooses me.

The stuff that made me mad 20 years ago doesn't really make me mad any more.

You make your Own luck.

This album was designed to touch your soul.