The landlord of colonial days may not have been the greatest man in town, but he was certainly the best-known, often the most popular, and ever the most picturesque and cheerful figure.

Every day may not be good... but there's something good in every day

The clock is running. Make the most of today. Time waits for no man. Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That's why it is called the present.

Half the interest of a garden is the constant exercise of the imagination.

It is heartrending to read the entries in many an old family Bible - the records of suffering, distress, and blasted hopes.

Every sea-captain who sailed to the West Indies was expected to bring home a turtle on the return voyage for a feast to his expectant friends.

When the first settlers landed on American shores, the difficulties in finding or making shelter must have seemed ironical as well as almost unbearable.

Mr. Welper, of the few certainties I've come across in life, one of them is that when a person says money is no object, the opposite is most likely true. Money is the only object—or will be.

A writer cannot really grasp what he has written. It is not like a building or a sculpture

Next to the wound what women make best is the bandage.

I've always been a proponent of the idea that technology doesn't matter to game design. The example I always like to point out is 'Tetris, ' one of the greatest games ever made.

I've got to learn to keep my mouth shut.

Gypsy [Rose Lee ] was a masterful storyteller, and her memoir and by extension, the musical weren't only Gypsy's monument; they were also her chance for monumental revisionism.

French architecture always manages to combine the most magnificent underlying themes of architecture; like Roman design, it looks to the community.

...expatriated Americans, even Henry James himself, have always seemed to me somewhat anchorless, rudderless, drifting before thewind.

You might not agree with something, but it doesn't mean you don't need to listen to it. White people have to accept that they don't always know about racism.

The mind is perhaps one of the greatest factors in gymnastics; if one can't control his mind, he can't control his body.