Many, many steeples would have to be stacked one on top of another to reach from the bottom to the surface of the sea.

Where words fail, music speaks.

Life is like a beautiful melody, only the lyrics are messed up.

Just living is not enough... one must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.

The whole world is a series of miracles, but we're so used to them we call them ordinary things.

To move, to breathe, to fly, to float, To gain all while you give, To roam the roads of lands remote, To travel is to live.

Life itself is the most wonderful fairy tale.

Nothing is too high for a man to reach, but he must climb with care and confidence

Everything you look at can become a fairy tale and you can get a story from everything you touch.

To be of use to the world is the only way to be happy.

Enjoy life. There's plenty of time to be dead.

True respect respects all men, it values all people.

The trouble with cousins, Lizabeth thought, was that they knew all about you, even your allergies.

The road to happiness is paved with good deeds for others.

I'm so grateful that I can play and that I can execute what I hear in my head, because that's the tricky part.

I may be a man, but I fight like a girl.

The Deep South might be wretched, but it can howl.

I think track records are very important. If you start early trying to have a perfect one in some simple thing like honesty, you're well on your way to success in this world.

But I don't necessarily define my faith by going to church every Sunday.

Woe to the man who tries to stretch the imagination of man He shall be mocked he shall be scourged by the blinkered guardians of morality.

Clarity precedes success.