All June I bound the rose in sheaves, Now, rose by rose, I strip the leaves.

My sun sets to rise again.

Autumn wins you best by this its mute appeal to sympathy for its decay.

Grow old with me! The best is yet to be.

Take away love and our earth is a tomb.

Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought.

Motherhood: All love begins and ends there.

Man partly is and wholly hopes to be.

I trust in nature for the stable laws of beauty and utility. Spring shall plant and autumn garner to the end of time.

It was roses, roses, all the way, With myrtle mixed in my path like mad.

Hand Grasps at hand, eye lights eye in good friendship, And great hearts expand And grow one in the sense of this world's life.

Good habits are the key to all success. Bad habits are the unlocked door to failure.

The worst moment for the atheist is when he is really thankful and has nobody to thank.

When you finally understand who you are, ages 6 through 60 will understand who you are. Because when they see a person that's come through all that I've come through, still standing, it's amazing.

Without explaining why, and, most of all, without naming other authors or books, I can only say my novels are influenced by love and death.

If there's a great story and great characters, then I can love a film in any genre, though crime thrillers and sci-fi have a particular soft spot in my heart.

Beside one deed of guilt, how blest is guiltless woe!

If I were God, I'd work on the reach of empathy.

A very important thing is not to make up your mind that you are any one thing.

Free speech includes the right to not speak.

Nothing is more important than a good education.