And there my little doves did sit With feathers softly brown And glittering eyes that showed their right To general Nature's deep delight.

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.

There is a tale...It tells of the days when a blight hung over our land. Nothing prospered. Nothing flourished. Not even zucchini would grow.

I'd like to turn the silence right up, but how do you do that?

I like Akon, I like some of Lil Wayne when he uses that funky voice. Anything progressive.

You can look at a monkey and see that there is more than a five percent difference in DNA.

It's not my light to begin with, in a sense; it's the light of God, the light of eternity. So take all you want!

The one thing I never questioned about my mother was whether she loved me.

I join the March for Life in Washington with my prayers. May God help us respect all life, especially the most vulnerable.

As an artist your trajectory just has to keep going up. the thing that subverts your next body of work is the work you've taken before.

A man may be outlawed for the sake of a fish net he has never seen.

I could imagine that a character could do almost anything at any time, and that was the freedom of the whole thing. But keeping track of what was plausible for certain characters [was the challenge].