Time in the turning-over of days works change for better or worse.

In all things rest is sweet; there is sur feit even in honey, even in Aphrodite s lovely flowers.

Every gift which is given, even though is be small, is in reality great, if it is given with affection

Water is the best of all things.

Learn what you are and be such.

Words have a longer life than deeds.

O my soul, do not aspire to immortal life, but exhaust the limits of the possible.

Often silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed.

There is a mortal breed most full of futility. In contempt of what is at hand, they strain into the future, hunting impossibilities on the wings of ineffectual hopes.

Not every truth is the better for showing its face undisguised; and often silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed.

Of the good things given between man and man, I say that a neighbor, true and loving in heart, to neighbor is a joy beyond all things else.

Don't cross me Scooby-Doo. I'm not an old man in a mask waiting to be thwarted by you meddling kids.

To hope is a long run but hopelessness is wrongdoing to your soul.

One cannot make oneself but one can sometimes help a little in the making of somebody else.

It's really clear to me that you can't hang onto something longer than its time. Ideas lose certain freshness, ideas have a shelf life, and sometimes they have to be replaced by other ideas.

I never photograph sunsets and I never photograph moonrises. I'm not interested in what things look like.

Science that leads over the horizon depends on gathering the best minds and enabling them to do what the best minds naturally seek to do: pursue the most thrilling questions of the time.

Whatever tension is on set can end up on your face.

Poetry being ... when we look from the center outward.

When you're in a place, the details you focus on are different than details you focus on when you're writing about it.

Any fool can take a bad line out of a poem; it takes a real pro to throw out a good line.