I'll lift you and you lift me, and we'll both ascend together.

For all sad words of tongue and pen, The saddest are these, 'It might have been'.

A little smile, a word of cheer, A bit of love from someone near, A little gift from one held dear, Best wishes for the coming year. These make a merry christmas!

Through this broad street, restless ever, ebbs and flows a human tide, wave on wave a living river; wealth and fashion side by side; Toiler, idler, slave and master, in the same quick current glide.

Swan flocks of lilies shoreward lying, In sweetness, not in music, dying.

Along the river's summer walk, The withered tufts of asters nod; And trembles on its arid stalk the hoar plum of the golden-rod.

Alas for him who never sees The stars shine through his cypress-trees Who, hopeless, lays his dead away, Nor looks to see the breaking day Across the mournful marbles play!

All the windows of my heart I open to the day.

Behind the cloud the starlight lurks, Through showers the sunbeams fall; For God, who loveth all his works, Has left his Hope with all.

If thou of fortune be bereft, and in thy store there be but left two loaves, sell one, and with the dole, buy hyacinths to feed thy soul.

Green calm below, blue quietness above.

When there is shortage of anointing, you will begin to doubt your calling

Creativity is born of chaos, even if it is somewhat difficult to glimpse the possibilities in the midst of the confusion.

I'm sure that in 1985, plutonium is available in every corner drugstore, but in 1955, it's a little hard to come by.

Between frivolity and intentional mischief there is little difference, none in the results.

Duke Wayne played a mean guy but never an anti-hero.

God has a thousand names, or rather He is Nameless.

The two-war strategy is just a marketing device to justify a high [military] budget.

One can neither agree nor disagree with a terminological proposal, as long as it is clear that it is just that: terminological.

He saved others, himself he cannot save!

Real optimism knows the difficulties but believes they can be overcome.