How short our happy days appear! How long the sorrowful!

O fateful flower beside the rill- The Daffodil, the daffodil!

A healthful hunger for a great idea is the beauty and blessedness of life.

When sparrows build and the leaves break forth My old sorrow wakes and cries.

Youth! youth! how buoyant are thy hopes! they turn, like marigolds, toward the sunny side.

I have lived to thank God that all my prayers have not been answered.

Crowds of bees are giddy with clover Crowds of grasshoppers skip at our feet, Crowds of larks at their matins hang over, Thanking the Lord for a life so sweet.

Her face betokened all things dear and good, The light of somewhat yet to come was there Asleep, and waiting for the opening day, When childish thoughts, like flowers would drift away.

And bitter waxed the fray; Brother with brother spake no word When they met in the way.

Man is the miracle in nature. God Is the One Miracle to man.

The moon looks upon many night flowers; the night flowers see but one moon.

How easily we get trapped in that which is not essential - in looking good, winning at competition, gathering power and wealth - when simply being alive is the gift beyond measure.

You little subs make me nervous. Being around you is too much like walking into a room filled with tiny kittens and trying not to step on one.

Leaders unify nations by creating an external enemy, and nations make that dream comes true.

Nothing gets me more excited and inspired than something new.

I never take anything for granted. I may slip any minute.

Failure is the true test of greatness

Because of my Portuguese heritage, I have an interest in all of the instrumentation that comes from Portugal and Brazil as well.

Knowledge has become the key economic resource and the dominant-and perhaps even the only-source of competitive advantage.

I was good at art - always good at art.

The patient that's on the floor with the cardiac arrest is not Wall Street. It's the American economy.