The people there were gods and midgets and knew themselves mortal and so the midgets walked tall so as not to embarrass the gods and the gods crouched so as to make the small ones feel at home.

Bees do have a smell, you know, and if they don't they should, for their feet are dusted with spices from a million flowers.

A good night sleep, or a ten minute bawl, or a pint of chocolate ice cream, or all three together, is good medicine.

Sandwich outdoors isn’t a sandwich anymore. Tastes different than indoors, notice? Got more spice. Tastes like mint and pinesap. Does wonders for the appetite.

The beginning of wisdom, as they say. When you're seventeen you know everything. When you're twenty-seven if you still know everything you're still seventeen.

The world, like a great iris of an even more gigantic eye, which has also just opened and stretched out to encompass everything, stared back at him.

and sleeping put an end to summer, 1928,

Trains and boxcars and the smell of coal and fire are not ugly to children. Ugliness is a concept that we happen on later and become self-conscious about.

No, ” moaned Tom in despair. “School. School straight on ahead! Why, why do dime stores show things like that in windows before summer’s even over! Ruin half the vacation!

The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of past centuries.

You broughtme your darkness& I loved youwith the radianttears of athousand suns.

Travel the world until your Facebook's check ins finished...!!!

The strength to go on must come from within, not without, or it crushes instead of building up the heart.

Here, ” he said, “I place the man I was aside the man I am now. And we have not the same hope nor thought, yet are one continuous breath from the body of I, Akiyama Akio.

Winning isn't everything, but it beats anything in second place.

Time touches all things with a destroying hand.

A charge to keep I have, A God to glorify; A never dying soul to save, And fit it for the sky.

Both teams want to win and they want to do everything possible. You don't think about the fatigue factor. You're just trying to grind it out to get the win.

I have never been a shooter.