There is no stillness like the quiet of the first cold nights in the fall.

We are torn between nostalgia for the familiar and an urge for the foreign and strange. As often as not, we are homesick most for the places we have never known.

We are homesick most for the places we have never known.

Nothing is so musical as the sound of pouring bourbon for the first drink on a Sunday morning. Not Bach or Schubert or any of those masters.

The writer is by nature a dreamer - a conscious dreamer.

Falling in love is the easiest thing in the world. It's standing in love that matters.

How can the dead be truly dead when they still live in the souls of those who are left behind?

The mind is like a richly woven tapestry in which the colors are distilled from the experiences of the senses, and the design drawn from the convolutions of the intellect.

Love is a joint experience between two persons -- but the fact that it is a joint experience does not mean that it is a similar experience to the two people involved.

The thinking mind is best controlled by the imagination.

The Heart is a Lonely Hunter.

To be rich, don’t try to earn money. To grow abundance, never forget to cultivate your mind.

The world is mere change, and this life, opinion.

There's no precedent for women philosophers and there's no precedence for most of the things I did.

It was said of him that he did not say much, but that when he did everyone stopped to listen.

Oh, how horrible our sins look when they are committed by someone else.

Of course in Miami, not denouncing Fidel Castro at every turn is almost as bad as saying Gloria Estefan can't sing.

I believe in only one thing and that thing is human liberty.

All go free when multitudes offend.

For as nightingales do upon glow-worms feed, So poets live upon the living light.

Every human activity, except sin, can be done for God's pleasure, if you do it with an attitude of praise.