A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability and beauty of the biotic community. It is wrong when it tends otherwise.

Our ability to perceive quality in nature begins, as in art, with the pretty. It expands through successive stages of the beautiful to values as yet uncaptured by language.

No matter how intently one studies the hundred little dramas of the woods and meadows, one can never learn all the salient facts about any one of them.

It is part of wisdom never to revisit a wilderness, for the more golden the lily, the more certain that someone has gilded it.

It's just that it's fearsome for a man to have a woman start thinking right in front of him. It always leads to trouble.

Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling.

Those who wish well to the State ought to choose to places of trust men of inward principle, justified by exemplary conversation.

I was very sad to hear of the death of Ronnie Barker, who was such a warm, friendly and encouraging presence to have when I started in television. He was also a great comic actor to learn from.

Always turn and face the attack.

Little red wagon, little red bike, I ain’t no monkey but I know what I like.

I decided during my teens that I wasn't going to have the life of a concert pianist, much to the chagrin of a lot of people who had put a lot of money into me!

Get your team in order, assembly is key

The Jesuits had learned that a Christian mission to China could never succeed if it were not in a position to show and convince the Chinese intelligentsia of the superiority of the European culture.

Meanings of all songs come after they are recorded. Someone else has to interpret them