All in all, I'd say, the world is strangling.

Emerald as heavy as a golf course, ruby as dark as an afterbirth, diamond as white as sun on the sea.

Saints have no moderation, nor do poets, just exuberance.

I am a collection of dismantled almosts.

Put your ear down close to your soul and listen hard.

As it has been said: Love and a cough cannot be concealed. Even a small cough. Even a small love.

I’m lost. And it’s my own fault. It’s about time I figured out that I can’t ask people to keep me found.

Watch out for intellect, because it knows so much it knows nothing and leaves you hanging upside down, mouthing knowledge as your heart falls out of your mouth.

Meanwhile in my head, I’m undergoing open-heart surgery.

O starry night, This is how I want to die

O yellow eye, let me be sick with your heat, let me be feverish and frowning.

Life is not meant to follow a pattern. Every moment has a multitude of realms.

Happiness is ... usually attributed by adults to children and by children to adults.

I like to sing ballads the way Eddie Fisher does and the way Perry Como does. But the way I'm singing now is what makes the money.

I've come to learn that what really matters is the relationship, the quality of the relationship.

He who finds Fortune on his side should go briskly ahead, for she is wont to favor the bold.

Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too.

We need technology in every classroom and in every student and teacher's hand, because it is the pen and paper of our time, and it is the lens through which we experience much of our world.

If you worry about yesterday's failures, then today's successes will be few. The future depends on what we do in the present

Purity of mind and idleness are incompatible.

We need to make this a reality this year or I strongly suspect it will not happen.