It is not important to be better than someone else, but to be better than yesterday.
A letter always seemed to me like immortality because it is the mind alone without corporeal friend.
If you take care of the small things, the big things take care of themselves. You can gain more control over your life by paying closer attention to the little things.
The soul selects her own society, Then shuts the door; On her divine majority Obtrude no more.
To travel far, there is no better ship than a book.
We turn not older with years but newer every day.
Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul - and sings the tunes without the words - and never stops at all.
I grew up in Texas in a family that fished and hunted, so I've shot guns as a kid.
Poems On Life: Life is given to us, we earn it by giving it. Let the dead have the immortality of fame, but the living the immortality of love. Life's errors cry for the merciful beauty that can modulate their isolation into a harmony with the whole. Life, like a child, laughs, shaking its rattle of death as it runs.
You don’t believe things because they make your life better, you believe them because they’re true.
Sometimes I do love to rehearse, but I always switch it up depending on whom I'm working with.