Men who watch, and say little, very often are much wiser than the men they serve.

But life, if nothing else, had taught her promises weren't always to be counted on, and what appeared at first a shining chance might end in bitter disappointment.

The past can teach us, nurture us, but it cannot sustain us. The essence of life is change, and we must move ever forward or the soul will wither and die.

Ye'll never best your fears until ye face them

A grieving person's like a person treading in deep water--if they've nothing to hold on to, they lose hope. They slide right under.

Hope rarely enters into it. 'Tis action moves the world.

So, you see, my heart is held forever by this place," she said. "I cannot leave.

Whatever time we have," he said, "it will be time enough.

Tis never the place, but the people one shares it with who are the cause of our happiest memories.

The world becomes a wider place, with but a little learning.

These are your beautiful days, Julia Beckett," he promised softly.

Greatness can only be attained through time conversion.

Today and every day: I offer the universe my love I offer the universe my peace I offer the universe my beauty of hope I offer the universe my deepest gratitude for her hospitality and generosity

You are always surrounded by wonder, whether you realise this or not.

Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin.

Those who make no mistakes are making the biggest mistakes of all - they are attempting nothing new.

The air came laden with the fragrance it caught upon its way, and the bees, upborne upon its scented breath, hummed forth their drowsy satisfaction as they floated by.

The Gorbachev period is conceived as an abandonment of historic Russian positions. So this is the framework, in my view, in which Putin operates.

If time, so fleeting, must like humans die, let it be filled with good food and good talk, and then embalmed in the perfumes of conviviality.

I'm spiritual but I don't practice any sort of thing.

My books kept me from the ring, the dog-pit, the tavern, and the saloon.