The lotos bowed above the tide and dreamed.

But see, in our open clearings, how golden the melons lie; Enrich them with sweets and spices, and give us the pumpkin-pie!

Pain is no longer pain when it is past.

O Nature, gracious mother of us all, Within thy bosom myriad secrets lie Which thou surrenderest to the patient eye That seeks and waits.

God pity the tortured hearts that will pant through this night! And the agony of the poor wife who has heard that her husband is really killed!

'Tis the motive exalts the action 'Tis the doing and not the deed.

I had to create some good work habits and attitude.

I wrote a couple of scripts on spec that didn't get made but got some attention, and I then got offers to write professionally.

Myth is an attempt to narrate a whole human experience, of which the purpose is too deep, going too deep in the blood and soul, for mental explanation or description.

We've made some heroic efforts, but the Earth as a whole is in worse shape today than 30 years ago, ... There's been 30 more years of greenhouses gases, species extinctions and population growth.

I always kind of thought I want to be a good person, I want to be right to my fellow men and love them like were supposed to.

People have to learn who they are - you can't have somebody else telling you who you are.

In all my years of New York cab riding I have yet to find the colorful, philosophical cabdriver that keeps popping up on the late movies.

The acme of judicial distinction means the ability to look a lawyer straight in the eyes for two hours and not hear a damned word he says.

Where there are millions upon millions of units of idle labour, it is no use thinking of labour-saving devices.

Women forget all the things they don't want to remember, and remember everything they don't want to forget.