Let every family meet once a day or week for a real hearty sing, and their sing will give them more pleasure than they will take all the rest of the day.

The sole constitutional office of language being to express our ideas and sentiments, it becomes more and more perfect and useful, the more effectually it subserves this sole end of its creation.

But thoughts the slave of life, and life, Time’s fool, And Time, that takes survey of all the world, Must have a stop.

I am not interested in whether you've stood with the great. I am interested in whether you've sat broken.

One doesn't stay in a state of nirvana by hiding from difficulties. You stay in nirvana by lavishing nirvana on everyone you meet, by giving it away as fast as you receive it.

During much of my life, I was anxious to be what someone else wanted me to be. Now I have given up that struggle. I am what I am.

It is unrealistic to think you can have an inflexible identity that never has to give or take or make compromises.

He's confident. He knows what he's good at and he has people around him to help him. (on Freddy Adu)

On January 1, 2006, Medicare will begin to offer a prescription drug benefit, and for the first time, it will place an emphasis on preventive care and early treatment of disease.

Can that which has cost the artist days, weeks, months and even years of reflection be understood in a flash by a dilettante?

Modern invention has banished the spinning wheel, and the same law of progress makes the woman of today a different woman from her grandmother.

God is wild; I am tame....Night falls and an age ends....We call and are answered through the thick foliage, by voices too strange to be our own.