A great magazine is sort of a net for ability.

Peace is the wait of the patient soul.

One of the most perfect and unfailing joys of life is planting. It is the creative joy felt by God.

And then came a time when I could no longer say 'We,' and I found myself in a lonesome land where no one remembered that I had ever been young, or called me by my given name.

perpetuity in a home is a blanket for the cold years that come with age.

Blessed be those souls who are glad! They are a salve for sorrow and fatigue. A sun in days of darkness, a joy in sorrow, a ray of heaven shining through the uncertainness of earth.

If the physical perfection of childhood could last, what a possesssion it would be for humanity!

Poor, successful, fallible Republican party! If it could only have kept the purity of the patriot impulse of which it was born!

There is a great need for a sarcasm font.

It is not giving up, it is accepting. And the light will enter. Always does.

Every creative act draws on the past whether it pretends to or not. It draws on what it knows. There's no such thing, really, as a creative act in a vacuum.

Vengeance does not subtract any numbers from the equation of murder; it only adds them.

Battles are sometimes won by generals; wars are nearly always won by sergeants and privates.

Anybody whose mind is functioning at all can't be content with the way the world works.

if you don't want to get old, don't mellow.

I don't believe in an afterlife but I still fully expect to see my brother again.

Theories are more common than achievements in the history of education.

I turned down a lot of reality shows in the past, but MTV, back in the day, was just the coolest with Cribs to Pimp My Ride.