We might all place ourselves in one of two ranks the women who do something, and the women who do nothing; the first being of course the only creditable place to occupy.

If the world seems cold to you, kindle fires to warm it.

Whatever with the past has gone, The best is always yet to come.

He who plants a tree, plants a hope.

The peach-bud glows, the wild bee hums, and wind-flowers wave in graceful gladness.

A drop of water, if it could write out its own history, would explain the universe to us.

Like a plant that starts up in showers and sunshine and does not know which has best helped it to grow, it is difficult to say whether the hard things or the pleasant things did me the most good.

When April steps aside for May, Like diamonds all the rain-drops glisten; Fresh violets open every day: To some new bird each hour we listen.

Some of us must wait for the best human gifts until we come to heavenly places. Our natural desire for musical utterance is perhaps a prophecy that in a perfect world we shall all know how to sing.

Every true friend is a glimpse of God.

I defied the machinery to make me its slave. Its incessant discords could not drown the music of my thoughts if I would let them fly high enough.

I love today, it is a sacred time.

I watched the moon landing as a boy, and I thought that was the most exciting thing ever, going into space, orbiting Earth and exploring other planets. That looked fantastic.

No matter what happens, nothing can prevent the historical process by which society demands freedom and democracy.

To discuss evil in a manner implying neutrality, is to sanction it.

Kill your television. Throw it out the darn window. Watch PBS in a bar.

I'm not really into vinyl. There's something about that raw, birth of rock and roll feel that makes me crazy.

I walked along Nevsky Avenue.Actually it was more torture, humiliation, and bilious irritation than a stroll.

Louis Brandeis was not a racist like Woodrow Wilson.

How few people will realize how much detail had to be gone into before Bakelite was a commercial success.

Nick subjected him to a long, judgmental stare. "There's something very wrong with you," he said at last. "I thought you should know.