Lovely are the curves of the white owl sweeping Wavy in the dusk lit by one large star. Lone on the fir-branch, his rattle-note unvaried, Brooding o'er the gloom, spins the brown eve-jar.

The season of love is the carnival of egoism and it brings a touchstone to our natures.

Earth knows no desolation. She smells regeneration in the moist breath of decay.

A witty woman is a treasure; a witty beauty is a power.

There is nothing the body suffers which the soul may not profit by.

Who rises from prayer a better man, his prayer is answered.

Caricature is rough truth.

Lowly, with a broken neck, The crocus lays her cheek to mire.

We are betrayed by what is false within

Perfect simplicity is unconsciously audacious.

The debts we owe ourselves are the hardest to pay.

There is a plan and a purpose, a value to every life, no matter what its location, age, gender or disability.

At an unprecedented time with the worst attack ever on our soil, our President displayed extraordinary determination, leadership and resolve when history was thrust upon him and the United States.

I think that the romantic impulse is in all of us and that sometimes we live it for a short time, but it's not part of a sensible way of living. It's a heroic path and it generally ends dangerously.

Capitalism is at its liberating best in a noncapitalist environment. The crypto-businessman is the true revolutionary in a Communist country.

A man's flesh is his own; the water belongs to the tribe.

The Louvre is a morgue; you go there to identify your friends.

My God, I'm four hundred years old and the most I can do is look three hundred.

We are greater than the sum of our parts.

There is but one thing of real value - to cultivate truth and justice, and to live without anger in the midst of lying and unjust men.

I can tell you that my experience has been that the gentlemen are more likely to come and ask for the order, ask for the raise, ask for the promotion, and that the women are less likely to do so.