Maturity is most rapid in the low latitudes, where pineapples and women most do thrive.

One gets, sensitive about losing mornings after getting a little used to them with living in a country. Each one of these endlessly varied daybreaks is an opera but once performed.

A flirt is like a dipper attached to a hydrant; every one is at liberty to drink from it, but no one desires to carry it away.

Gratitude is not only the memory but the homage of the heart- rendered to God for his goodness.

Pitch a lucky man into the Nile, says the Arabian proverb, and he will come up with a fish in his mouth!

It is the month of June, The month of leaves and roses, When pleasant sights salute the eyes, And pleasant scents the noses.

I knelt, and with the fervor of a lip unused to the cool breath of reason, told my love.

Like Melrose Abbey, large cities should especially be viewed by moonlight.

The lily and the rose in her fair face striving for precedence.

The taste forever refines in the study of women.

The rain is playing its soft pleasant tune fitfully on the skylight, and the shade of the fast-flying clouds across my book passed with delicate change.

Maddie: Now it’s just me against the world, and it’s the loneliest feeling ever.

Life is a dream. It moves from cause to cause, effect to effect, one point to another, one state of existence to another.

I think public service is a calling and you do it as long as the things that brought you into the office can continue getting you up in the morning and as long as there's still work to get done.

I think even lying on my bed I can still do something.

The only paradise is paradise lost.

Writing is not a McDonald's Hamburger.

I believe in myself. I believe in my vision, my life, my talent, my art. More than anyone. No one can take that away from me.

The initial organisation, we called ourselves the Network Working Group, consisted of 6 to 10 people. We then quickly grew to 30 people and then to 50 people.

You can't have everything. Where would you put it?

Most fears in life rarely come to fruition.