The nature of the universe probably depends heavily on who is the actual protagonist. Lately I've been suspecting it's one of my cats.

While ice is not really alive, it is certainly animate. It exists in an dynamic state of perpetual vibration, flux and movement. Enjoy its existence, and its safe passage in the mountains.

I guess everybody thinks about old times, even the happiest people.

You know the people, " said Pamela, "who say, 'Of course I love reading, but I've no time, alas!' as if everyone who loves reading doesn't make time.

If in 100 years I am only known as the man who invented Sherlock Holmes then I will have considered my life a failure.

Rush Limbaugh says if the health care bill passes, he will leave the country. The Democrats are upset, because if they knew that, they would have passed the bill years ago.

Make sure you're doing something that you love, that you're willing to do for the rest of your life. If you're doing it for money, that's the only thing you won't make.

Simplicity of manner is the last attainment. Men are very long afraid of being natural, from the dread of being taken for ordinary.

A string of successes can kill you if they make you think, 'Hey, I'm smart; I can't make any mistakes'.

As children we listened to the sound of the sea still echoing in the shell we picked up by the shore. That ancestral roar links us to the great sea which surges within us as well.

It's like thinking you're going to heaven, but when you get there it turns out to be Cleveland.

There was a serenity about him always that had the look of innocence, when, technically, the word was no longer applicable.