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.

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.

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.

The curse of covetousness is that it destroys manhood by substituting money for character.

The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom, but love is the perfection of it".'Perfection

What's the point in being an unpopular writer? It just doesn't make a lot of sense. For me it doesn't, anyway.

The important thing is that the principles that Senator Obama outlined originally are now embraced and taxpayers will be protected.

Let the price fixed with a friend be sufficient, and even dealing with a brother call in witnesses, but laughingly.

I would like to travel light on this journey of life, to get rid of the encumbrances I acquire each day.

There has never been and never will be another you. You have a purpose - a very special gift that only you can bring to the world.

I have an inability to enjoy things, but that's why we're in comedy. If we were happy, we wouldn't be funny, I guess.

I believed in Bobby Kennedy. Campaigning for him was an attempt to give back something to this country that has given me so much.

You can never be sure of anyone until you're close enough to see them clearly.

I'm also a fan with sticking with the most standard software that millions of other users also use, because you get the benefit of all those other users' problems and solutions.