Mirth itself is too often but melancholy in disguise.

Green little vaulter, in the sunny grass, Catching your heart up at the feel of June, Sole noise that's heard amidst the lazy noon, When ev'n the bees lag at the summoning brass.

The groundwork of all happiness is health.

Stolen kisses are always sweetest.

We are slumberous poppies, Lords of Lethe downs, Some awake and some asleep, Sleeping in our crowns. What perchance our dreams may know, Let our serious may know.

The most tangible of all visible mysteries - fire.

Sympathizing and selfish people are alike, both given to tears.

Traveling in the company of those we love is home in motion.

Colors are the smiles of nature.

Patience and gentleness is power.

Music is the medicine of the breaking heart.

You don't always have to chop with the sword of truth. You can point with it too.

When you do exams you never want to be the one who finishes first and you never want to be the one who finishes last.

Every woman is a human being-one cannot repeat that too often-and a human being must have occupation if he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world.

Anyone with talent can play in the Major Leagues; for someone like me to stay around as long as I did, I think that's a much greater acheivement.

Kelly Link is inimitable. Her stories are like nothing else, dark yet sparkling with her unique brand of fairy dust. This is the most marvelous kind of trouble to get in.

Look at the big picture of the wheel of life. Above it, there is a Buddha. He is pointing, not towards the wheel, but away from it. He is indicating that there is something else - nirvana.

At Berkeley I had my first encounter with real professional scientists.

The ultimate, angels' law, Indulging every instinct of the soul There where law, life, joy, impulse are one thing!

We consider ourselves as defective in memory, either because we remember less than we desire, or less than we suppose others to remember.

If you read to me I could tell you everything that was read. They didn't know what it was. They knew I wasn't lazy, but what was it?