Are we not like the actor of old times, who wore his mask so long his face took its likeness?

Imagination is to love what gas is to the balloon-that which raises it from earth.

I think hearts are very much like glasses. If they do not break with the first ring, they usually last a considerable time.

Ah, tell me not that memory sheds gladness o'er the past, what is recalled by faded flowers, save that they did not last?

Social life is filled with doubts and vain aspirings; solitude, when the imagination is dethroned, is turned to weariness and ennui.

The heart's hushed secret in the soft dark eye.

Ah, tell me not that memory Sheds gladness o'er the past; What is recalled by faded flowers, Save that they did not last? Were it not better to forget, Than but remember and regret?

In sad truth, half our forebodings of our neighbors are but our own wishes, which we are ashamed to utter in any other form.

An apt quotation is like a lamp which flings its light over the whole sentence.

there is nothing so easy as to be wise for others; a species of prodigality, by-the-by - for such wisdom is wholly wasted.

Strange mystery of our nature, that those in whom genius develops itself in imagination, thus taking its most ethereal form, should yet be the most dependent on the opinions of others!

Loving yourself doesn't make you selfish. When done correctly, the exact opposite occurs, because you know that selfish behaviors are negative for your mind, body and spirit.

It ain't over 'til it's over.-Yogi Berra

Parents need all the help they can get. The strongest as well as the most fragile family requires a vital network of social supports.

When I was little, I went to a Jewish community day school for most of elementary school.

I believe you can frighten people without showing their heads caved-in.

Reality is a wave function traveling both backward and forward in time.

I was more conservative when I was younger. But I don't think that I've moved left - I think the country has moved right.

Truth is multi-dimensional; it depends on the perspective you view from.

A strange passion is moving in my head My heart has become a bird which searches in the sky. Every part of me goes in different directions. Is it really so that the one I love is Everywhere?

When we are using this term 'basic goodness,' we are talking about our inherent completeness.