You have stirred the soil with your plow, my friend. It will never be the same again.

But one had to go back to the beginning of things, always. Trace the thread of life - find the knot - untangle it.

The lush green of the fields became a rich gold that swayed sturdily under the wind and fell at last before the hands of the reapers.

it was a sly trick of God's to give a man work to do - it kept him from asking questions that God couldn't answer.

I don't see as it matters much how well you mean if it's harm you're doin'.

By mid-morning a rain as fine as silk spills was weaving over the lake.

A false vision was better than none.

Ah, life, life, how madly, how cruelly it raced along your pulses!

There was nothing so real on the prairie as winter, nothing so memorable.

There is too much doing - too little being! When we begin to get strenuous, life begins to grow intolerable.

Time, designing slowly, swiftly; Time, destroying slowly, swiftly; Time holding, possessing the earth in its tender indifference.

Regardless of how black the page, he had always managed to turn it and move on to a new chapter in his life.

If you keep thinking "you" can change someone, you could end up marrying a job you're not qualified for.

Little things are little things

Lord Ironman, please play tonsil hockey with me, just this one time. There, does that make you happy?

If I lift any weights, I do it more for explosion, but I really use my body weight to build up muscle and strength.

I've always been in the middle of making my own movies, so taking acting jobs that take me away from that has been impossible.

The average man gets his living by such depressing devices that boredom becomes a sort of natural state to him.

The things I'm passionate about are beauty and fashion.

I don't want to be seen as the kind of person who does things and then expects publicity in return.

'Tis sweet to kiss a girl on Spring's first day, but only half so sweet as 'tis to kiss a girl on her bootyhole.