My meaning in saying he is a good man, is to have you understand me that he is sufficient. -The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 3.

Smooth runs the water where the brook is deep. -King Henry VI. Part II. Act iii. Sc. 1.

Paradise is to be the ultimate instrument, fulfilling God's desperate intent that we love each other. The music people . . . they give thanks for the gift and reflect the love.

It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.

I have only one eye,--I have a right to be blind sometimes . . . I really do not see the signal!

In creating, the only hard thing is to begin: a grass blade's no easier to make than an oak.

Forming and breaking in the sky, I fancy all shapes are there; Temple, mountain, monument, spire; Ships rigged out with sails of fire, And blown by the evening air.

Without change, something sleeps inside us, and seldom awakens. The sleeper must awaken.

People that make puns are like wanton boys that put coppers on the railroad tracks.

To do a perfectly unselfish act for selfish motives.

Conservation is a state of harmony between men and land.

The greatest power that a person possesses is the power to choose.

The only tyrant I will accept in this world is the "still small voice" within me.

The charm dissolves apace; And as the morning steals upon the night, Melting the darkness, so their rising senses Begin to chase the ignorant fumes that mantle Their clearer reason.

With his hand upon the throttle-valve of crime.

My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four unless there are three other people.

I walked a mile with Pleasure, She chattered all the way; But left me none the wiser, For all she had to say. I walked a mile with Sorrow And ne'er a word said she; But, oh, the things I learned from her When Sorrow walked with me!

'Tis the most certain sign, the world's accurst That the best things corrupted, are the worst; 'Twas the corrupted Light of knowledge, hurl'd Sin, Death, and Ignorance o'er all the world; That Sun like this Gaz'd on too long, resumes the light he gave.

It is easy to build a philosophy--it doesn't have to run.

About the only thing we have left that actually discriminates in favor of the plain people is the stork.