I am better able to imagine hell than heaven; it is my inheritance, I suppose.

In masks outrageous and austere The years go by in single file; But none has merited my fear, And none has quite escaped my smile.

When strawberries go begging, and the sleek Blue plums lie open to the blackbird's beak, We shall live well--we shall live very well.

My lord, adjudge my strength, and set me where I bear a little more than I can bear.

If you would keep your soul From spotted sight or sound, Live like the velvet mole; Go burrow underground.

Peaches grow wild, and pigs can live in clover; A barrel of salted herrings lasts a year; The spring begins before the winter's over.

I shall lie folded like a saint, Lapped in a scented linen sheet, On a bedstead striped with bright-blue paint, Narrow and cold and neat.

If any have a stone to throw It is not I, ever or now.

I bear a little more than I can bear.

Down to the Puritan marrow of my bones There's something in this richness that I hate. I love the look, austere, immaculate, Of landscapes drawn in pearly monotones.

An old earthen pipe like myself is dry and thirsty and so a most voracious drinker of life at its source; I'm no more to be split by the vital stream than if I were stone or steel.

Tune your antenna to the highest frequency possible to attract people of substance increase your circle of influence intentionally.

There is nothing to be gained by waiting for a better situation. You see where you are and you do what you can with that.

...True prayer is measured by weight, not by length. A single groan before God may have more fullness of prayer in it than a fine oration of great length.

I fell completely in love with acting. I guess I was bitten.

Fear is trusting in your own power.

If you are honest and frank, people may cheat you; Be honest and frank anyway.

Sometimes you're ahead of the game and sometimes people don't get it and that's just one of those things you have to accept and carry on.

When your intentions are very pure and clear, nature brings support to you.

I lived in a hotel across the street from Disneyland for a month.

I don't mind if you forget me. Having learned my lesson, I never left an impression on anyone.