当我唱歌时,我感觉自己置身于一个不同的世界,在那里其他一切都不重要。
The trees, like the longings of the earth, stand a - tiptoe to peep at the heaven.
At that age, I'd take any excuse to make estimates and do minor arithmetic. I'd calculate our gas mileage -- figure out useless statistics on things like grocery spending. I'd been hearing an ad campaign about smoking. I can't remember the details, but basically the ad said, every puff of a cigarette takes some number of minutes off of your life: I think it might have been two minutes per puff. At any rate, I decided to do the math for my grandmother. I estimated the number of cigarettes per days, estimated the number of puffs per cigarette and so on. When I was satisfied that I'd come up with a reasonable number, I poked my head into the front of the car, tapped my grandmother on the shoulder, and proudly proclaimed, "At two minutes per puff, you've taken nine years off your life!"
I have held many things in my hands, and I have lost them all; but whatever I have placed in God's hands, that I still possess.
The two greatest enemies of the equity fund investor are expenses and emotions.
Every hour, she thinks, someone forges the rings, someone carves the cradle, someone loses the war.