Some of the days in November carry the whole memory of summer as a fire opal carries the color of moonrise.

A house with no fireplace is a house without a heart.

Almost all words do have colour and nothing is more pleasant than to utter a pink word and see someone's eyes light up and know it is a pink word for him or her too.

the tentacles of today reach out like an octopus to swallow yesterday.

We need time to dream, time to remember, and time to reach the infinite. Time to be.

The curious thing about fishing is you never want to go home. If you catch something, you can't stop. If you don't catch anything, you hate to leave in case something might bite.

the real evidence of growing older is that things level off in importance ... Days are no longer jagged peaks to climb; time is a meadow, and we move over it with level steps.

nothing decorates a home like books. There they are, waiting to decorate the mind, too!

Dog lovers are a good breed themselves.

Christmas is a bridge. We need bridges as the river of time flows past. Today's Christmas should mean creating happy hours for tomorrow and reliving those of yesterday.

Being a good neighbor is an art which makes life richer.

It took the madmen of yesterday for us to be able to act with extreme clarity today. I want to be one of those madmen. We must dare to invent the future.

Nowadays a gold medal is a $1 million contract. Our athletes are our heroes.

It's no fun being a specimen.

After all, everybody has secrets and there are some things that nobody knows about you but only you, right?

Many have believed that Walden reached quite through to the other side of the globe.

Words are so often used in the opposite sense, as a screen of diversion. It's the struggle towards truthfulness which is the same whether one is writing a poem, a novel or an argument.

Our leaders and Osama Bin Laden all claim to do the right thing in the name of God. I question that. I wonder if that God is worth the life of another human-being.

I came to win, to conquer, to thrive

When life hands you lemons make lemonade. Then find someone who's life gave them Tequila and have a party.

Someone who does not see a pane of glass is not aware of not seeing it.