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

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.

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!

But still when the mists of doubt prevail, And we lie becalmed by the shores of age, We hear from the misty troubled shore The voce of children gone before. Drawing the soul to its anchorage.

A hero without faults is like an omelet without little bits of eggshell in it.

People wonder if there is a relationship between my lack of sight and the way I sing. But there's no connection.

How we eat can change the world

If you are first you are first. If you are second, you are nothing.

My mother certainly loves caviar, but I think that's generational - they grew up thinking it's romantic or sophisticated or something.

And if I had a camera Showing all the light we give And showing where the light extends I'd give it to my friends

The lives of most men are patchwork quilts. Or at best one matching outfit with a closet and laundry bag full of incongruous accumulations. A lifetime of training for just ten seconds.

Email helps me keep in touch with my family. I wouldn't know what my extended family was doing every day if we weren't emailing each other.

Self-love is the most inhibited sin in the canon.