Prose talks and poetry sings.

Let peace descending from her native heaven bid her olives spring amidst the joyful nations and plenty in league with commerce scatter blessings from her copious hand!

On balance my life has been a constant stream of blessings rather than disappointments and failures and tragedies. I wish I had been re-elected. I think I could have kept our country at peace. I think I could have consolidated what we achieved at Camp David with a treaty between Israel and the Palestinians.

We look forward to the time when the Power of Love will replace the Love of Power. Then will our world know the blessings of peace.

Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains losses and disappointments but let us have patience and we soon shall see them in their proper figures.

Life has loveliness to sell all beautiful and splendid things blue waves whitened on a cliff soaring fire that sways and sings and children's faces looking up holding wonder like a cup.

A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer it sings because it has a song.

When you work you are a flute through whose heart the whispering of the hours turns to music. Which of you would be a reed dumb and silent when all else sings together in unison?

This morning of the small snow I count the blessings the leak in the faucet which makes of the sink time the drop of the water on water.

Reflect upon your present blessings of which every man has many - not on your past misfortunes of which all men have some.