But, when the goddess' work is done,The woman's still remains.

The delicate thought, that cannot find expression, For ruder speech too fair, That, like thy petals, trembles in possession, And scatters on the air.

A bird in the hand is a certainty, but a bird in the bush may sing.

Don't be too quickTo break bad habits: better stick,Like the Mission folk, to your arsenic.

Never a lip is curved with pain that can't be kissed into smiles again.

The creator who could put a cancer in a believer's stomach is above being interfered with by prayers.

Never a tear bedims the eye That time and patience will not dry.

If, of all words of tongue and pen, The saddest are, It might have been,' More sad are these we daily see: 'It is, but hadn't ought to be!'

The dominant expression of a child is gravity.

For the glory born of Goodness Never dies, And its flag is not half-masted In the skies.

Each lost day has its patron saint!

I don't need a man to be happy.

The rich can be "eccentric " the poor have to be considered "nuts."

Your mind is greater than your problems, your heart is greater than your troubles, your soul is greater than your temptations, and your God is greater than your obstacles.

One of the things that we can say with confidence is that we will have much lighter, much stronger materials, and this will reduce the cost of air flight, and the cost of rockets.

I really believe in the power of music.

A man who makes trouble for others is also making trouble for himself.

I always thought that for me the unassuming, friendly looking guy next door is certainly scarier as a monster than the monsterish looking predator, because he can lure people in, it's easier.

The songs started as a soundscapes, and then came the words and music; each song took at least a year to make.

As individual fingers we can easily be broken, but all together we make a mighty fist.

The child shall become father to the man.