the horizon bounded by a propitious sky, azure, marbled with pearly white.

There is no happiness like that of being loved by your fellow creatures, and feeling that your presence is an addition to their comfort.

Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last.

Conventionality is not morality.

Every atom of your flesh is as dear to me as my own: in pain and sickness it would still be dear.

If he does go, the change will be doleful. Suppose he should be absent spring, summer, and autumn: how joyless sunshine and fine days will seem!

I would always rather be happy than dignified.

It is a pity that doing one's best does not always answer.

It is far better to endure patiently a smart which nobody feels but yourself, than to commit a hasty action whose evil consequences will extend to all connected with you.

And it is you, spirit--with will and energy, and virtue and purity--that I want, not alone with your brittle frame.

Yet it would be your duty to bear it, if you could not avoid it: it is weak and silly to say you cannot bear what it is your fate to be required to bear.

Attempt always to uncover the beauty in everyday surroundings. If you cannot find it, then be the one to create it.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT PAGE: To my daughter, if you ever date anyone like the men I write, I will kick your *ss up between your ears and you will walk sideways for a month, but I’ll still love you.

It is with trifles, and when he is off guard, that a man best reveals his character.

What is liberty? There is no such thing as absolute liberty!

A critic is a man who expects miracles.

Shower the people you love with love Show them the way that you feel Things are gonna work out fine if you only will.

No more pronouncements on lousy verse. No more hidden competition. No more struggling not to be a square.

Musicians are at the bottom of the creative pyramid and authors are at the top, and many people think it's unacceptable for someone to attempt to jump from the bottom to the top of the pyramid.

It is not sufficient to have compassion only for those who are cute.

Courage is not the absence of fear but the ability to carry on with dignity in spite of it.