And I breathe large at home. I drop my cloak, Unclasp my girdle, loose the band that tiesMy hair...now could I but unloose my soul!We are sepulchred alive in this close world, And want more room.

I love you not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you

I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.

Earth's crammed with heaven, And every common bush afire with God: But only he who sees takes off his shoes.

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.

You're something between a dream and a miracle.

Light tomorrow with today!

You were made perfectly to be loved - and surely I have loved you, in the idea of you, my whole life long.

Silence is the best response to a fool.

I love you for the part of me that you bring out.

Why, what is to live? Not to eat and drink and breathe,—but to feel the life in you down all the fibres of being, passionately and joyfully.

Freedom is the willingness and ability to choose your own path and experience your life as your true self.

Unless their use by readers bring them to life, books are indeed dead things.

Don’t ever stop believing in your own personal transformation. It is still happening even on the days you may not realize it or feel like it.

America is a land where men govern, but women rule.

A man that puts himself on the ground of moral principle, if the whole world be against him, is mightier than all of them.

A man's life breath cannot come back again-- no raiders in force, no trading brings it back, once it slips through a man's clenched teeth.

For me cinema is image, sound, and the faces and bodies and, yes, voices, of my actors, and sometimes the words that they are saying, but not only the words.

If we don't empower women, we don't allow them to unlock the potential of themselves and their children.

Beware of getting too comfortable! When we are comfortable, it’s easy to forget other people.

President Obama is perhaps the smartest person I've ever worked with.