Guten Morgen, mon ami!Heute ist es schönes Wetter!Charmé de vous voir ici!Never saw you looking better!

Send me the half that's got my keys.

Virtue its own reward? Alas! And what a poor one as a rule! Be virtuous and life will pass Like one long term of Sunday School.

We should all learn to take things easily - other people's things.

What makes Existence really nice Is Virtue--with a dash of Vice.

Aunt Jane observed, the second time She tumbled off a bus, 'The step is short from the Sublime To the Ridiculous.

Weep not for little Leonie, abducted by a French Marquis. Though loss of honor was a wrench, just think how it's improved her French.

Billy, in one of his nice new sashes, Fell in the fire and was burnt to ashes; Now, although the room grows chilly, I haven't the heart to poke poor Billy.

O'er the rugged mountain's brow Clara threw the twins she nursed, And remarked,'I wonder now Which will reach the bottom first?

The Terrible Truth is that brutality is part of human nature, and all the laws in the world can't neuter it.

I am skin, but underneath livesfire and stars and wild!

Your purpose is simply what you do each day.

If only his mind were as easy to fix as his body.

And in the background of Early's story was her voice. Her soul. Her sadness and longing. Because when it's raining, it's always Billie Holiday. p. 81

India is a geographical term. It is no more a United Nation than the Equator.

Tact in audacity is knowing how far you can go without going too far.

I got ice in my veins Blood in my eyes/Hate in my heart Love in my mind

Your eye is a muscle, you have to keep it in shape and the more you draw, the more you see.

Seeds of faith are always within us; sometimes it takes a crisis to nourish and encourage their growth.