Too little is it considered, while we gaze on aristocratic beauty, how much good food, soft lying, warm wrapping, ease of mind, have to do with the attractions which command our admiration.

There's luck in odd numbers.

Circumstances are the rulers of the weak; they are but the instruments of the wise.

Come live in my heart, and pay no rent.

The neck on which diamonds might have worthily sparkled, will look less tempting when the biting winter has hung icicles there for gems.

When once the itch of literature comes over a man, nothing can cure it but the scratching of a pen. But if you have not a pen, I suppose you must scratch any way you can.

A baby was sleeping, Its mother was weeping.

Better to be safe than sorry.

I'll seek a four leaved shamrock in all thy fairy dells, And if I find the charmed leaves, oh, how I'll weave my spells!

Reproof on her lip, but a smile in her eye.

There was a place in childhood that I remember well, And there a voice of sweetest tone bright fairy tales did tell.

Whatever is unlike Christ in conduct, speech, or disposition grieves the Spirit of grace.

My angels are jellyfish, electric, nearly invisible, armed with poisoned harpoons.My archangels are yellow tang.They feed on sunlight.They speak through color.Anything in their paths turns blind.

It is better to have a fair intellect that is well used than a powerful one that is idle.

Every now and then you'll nail one that's really, really special. And that's what you live for.

I think my fans will follow me into our combined old age. Real musicians and real fans stay together for a long, long time.

The bad news was that the yard contained a dog. A very, very large dog, wide and hairy, like a cross between a rottweiler and a Goodyear blimp.

I don't think I would be a writer if I had stayed in Chile. I would be trapped in the chores, in the family, in the person that people expected me to be.

It is human nature to look away from illness. We don't enjoy a reminder of our own fragile mortality.

Heavenly Father loves you—each of you. That love never changes.

'Close Encounters of the Third Kind' is the best movie for a guy like me. A cerebral adventure. A moving story. A bunch of little green men.