When the first settlers landed on American shores, the difficulties in finding or making shelter must have seemed ironical as well as almost unbearable.

Every day may not be good... but there's something good in every day

The clock is running. Make the most of today. Time waits for no man. Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That's why it is called the present.

Half the interest of a garden is the constant exercise of the imagination.

It is heartrending to read the entries in many an old family Bible - the records of suffering, distress, and blasted hopes.

The landlord of colonial days may not have been the greatest man in town, but he was certainly the best-known, often the most popular, and ever the most picturesque and cheerful figure.

Every sea-captain who sailed to the West Indies was expected to bring home a turtle on the return voyage for a feast to his expectant friends.

I heard that I am your biggest disappointment, yet, in my heart, I know and feel that I am the greatest version of myself ever and celebrate myself each and every day

You have a brain and mind of your own. Use it, and reach your own decisions.

Windisch closes his eyes. He feels his eyes. He feels his eyeballs in his hands. His eyes without a face.

It is almost startling to hear this warning of departed time sounding among the tombs, and telling the lapse of the hour, which, like a billow, has rolled us onward towards the grave.

Watch what people are cynical about, and one can often discover what they lack.

Each moment is a moment of choice and your commitments keep you true to yourself, choice by choice.

No problem is more crucial for a naturalistic view of the world than the mind-body problem.

One thing I want to say: I don't like victim stories and I don't write them.

All of us who serve in the House of Representatives and the Senate pay into Social Security.

I don't think you should have firearms where people are drinking.