Having a large world of his own in his own head and heart, he tolerated confinement to a small, still corner of the real world very patiently.

Strange that grief should now almost choke me, because another human being's eye has failed to greet mine.

I'll borrow of imagination what reality will not give me.

Our power of being happy lies a good deal in ourselves, I believe.

. . . they would neither hate nor envy us if they did not deem us so much happier than themselves.

In her past were sweet passages, in her future rosy hopes.

He did not yet known how many commenced lefe-romances are doomed never to get beyond the first, or at most the second chapter.

Existence was never originally meant to be that useless, blank, pale, slow-trailing thing it often becomes to many, and is becoming to me among the rest.

I will bestir myself, ' was her resolution, 'and try to be wise if I cannot be good.

Endurance over-goaded, stretched the hand of fraternity to sedition.

His mind has the clearness of the deep sea, the patience of its rocks, the force of its billows.

You cannot weave truth on a loom of lies.

In the midst of your doubts don't forget how many of the important questions God does answer.

You think you're grown in college but you're not, because everything is kind of controlled. You lose the camaraderie and suddenly find yourself alone in an apartment just feeling lost.

When I saw the president [Barack Obama], I was a little disappointed that, you know, we were under constant attack. We never felt comfortable.

For to interpose a little ease, Let our frail thoughts dally with false surmise.

Does the moon play only silver when it strums the galaxy?

I've got a great place, it's a country house

To be too dissatisfied with ourselves is a weakness. To be too satisfied with ourselves is a stupidity.

In my head, I think I'd make a perfect spy, but in reality, I don't think I'd fare very well.

I've never really heard anybody imitating anything of mine the way they do with Edward Van Halen's stuff.