Goodness comes out of people who bask in the sun, as it does out of a sweet apple roasted before the fire.

The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value

Lettuce is like conversation; it must be fresh and crisp, so sparkling that you scarcely notice the bitter in it.

It is fortunate that each generation does not comprehend its own ignorance. We are thus enabled to call our ancestors barbarous.

There is no moment of delight in any pilgrimage like the beginning of it.

To own a bit of ground, to scratch it with a hoe, to plant seeds, and watch the renewal of life - this is the commonest delight of the race, the most satisfactory thing a man can do.

Mud-pies gratify one of our first and best instincts. So long as we are dirty, we are pure.

A cynic might suggest as the motto of modern life this simple legend-"just as good as the real.

Perhaps nobody ever accomplishes all that he feels lies in him to do; but nearly every one who tries his power touches the walls of his being.

Nature is, in fact, a suggester of uneasiness, a promoter of pilgrimages and of excursions of the fancy which never come to any satisfactory haven.

People always overdo the matter when they attempt deception.

I'm not always sincere. One can't be in this world, you know.

Dear God, she was getting turned on in the middle of a roadside emergency. This had to stop.

Always work with/surround yourself with people who help make you a better version of you. Kindly avoid those who don't.

Even if I know I shall never change the masses, never transform anything permanent, all I ask is that the good things also have their place, their refuge.

Self-sabotage is when we say we want something and then go about making sure it doesn't happen.

And I remember looking at Gray Davis and, you know, Gray is the consummate political operative.

The boat is safer anchored at the port; but that’s not the aim of boats.

Just as worship begins in holy expectancy, it ends in holy obedience. If worship does not propel us into greater obedience, it has not been worship.

In fact, I believe to a certain extent a person today who starts with just clay, with no drawing and no painting and no figure drawing, still-life drawing, various things, they miss a great deal.

From the body of one guilty deed a thousand ghostly fears and haunting thoughts proceed.