There is a sight all hearts beguiling-- A youthful mother to her infant smiling, Who with spread arms and dancing feet, A cooing voice, returns its answer sweet.

Good-morrow to thy sable beak, And glossy plumage, dark and sleek, Thy crimson moon and azure eye

A willing heart adds feather to the heel.

If my heart were not light, I would die.

Pampered vanity is a better thing perhaps than starved pride.

I have seen the day, when, if a man made himself ridiculous, the world would laugh at him. But now, everything that is mean, disgusting, and absurd, pleases them but so much the better!

The bliss even of a moment still is bliss.

My day is closed! the gloom of night is come! a hopeless darkness settles over my fate.

But woman's grief is like a summer storm, Short as it violent is.

A woman is seldom roused to great and courageous exertion but when something most dear to her is in immediate danger.

I wish I were with some of the wild people that run in the woods, and know nothing about accomplishments!

Why did you throw sand when I just told you not to?"What child says, "Hmm, why did I? I guess there's no good reason. Thanks for pointing that out. It won't happen again.

Playing a character in a video game is different to other performances because your character can't lead the audience of players in one direction.

Pick the day. Enjoy it– to the hilt.

Give me good books, good conversations, and my Trek Y-Foil, and I shall want for nothing else.

Psychoanalysis has taught that the dead – a dead parent, for example – can be more alive for us, more powerful, more scary, than the living. It is the question of ghosts.

My friend, God wants to throw a beam of light on your path today.

You either ride life or it rides you. Your mental attitude determines who is 'rider' and who is 'horse.'

I played hockey in North Dakota growing up and watch a lot of that.

When you're a little kid, growing up, most of us know what's right and wrong. Our parents teach us that discipline.

I'm not one of those people the tabloids chase around.