Ardent yet chill and formal, how I ache to tempt a chisel as a sculptor.

In my garden the winds have beaten the ripe lilies; in my garden, the salt has wilted the first flakes of young narcissus.

We are voyagers, discoverers of the not-known, the unrecorded; we have no map; possibly we will reach haven, heaven.

I will be free, no lover's kiss to bind me to earth, no bliss of love to counteract actual bliss.

Dance until the earth dance.

She did not look at the daffodils. They didn't mean anything. She looked at the daffodils. She said, 'Thank you for the daffodils.

One flower may slay the winter and meet death.

You are wind in a stark tree, you are the stark tree unbent, you are a strung bow, you are an arrow.

I could not accept from wisdom what love taught, woman is perfect.

Ah love is bitter and sweet, but which is more sweet the bitterness or the sweetness, none has spoken it.

No poetic phantasy but a biological reality, a fact: I am an entity like bird, insect, plant or sea-plant cell; I live; I am alive.

According to your strategy plan and how it looks is commensurate with how much effort you will apply to achieving success.

People can enjoy music everywhere. Therefore, music is more than a giftbecause it represents a unique form of human freedom.

I love being in my garden. I don't plant a lot of exotic flora, but I do spend a lot of time outside doing manual labour.

Every age develops its own peculiar forms of pathology, which express in exaggerated form its underlying character structure.

It would be easier to pay off the national debt overnight than to neutralise the long-range effects of our national stupidity

I am pleased to be praised by a man so praised as you, father. [Words used by Hector.] [Lat., Laetus sum Laudari me abs te, pater, laudato viro.]

God is the electricity and we are the lamps.

We can live nuanced, complicated, exciting lives with no reason for limitation.

I am learning every day to allow the space between where I am and where I want to be to inspire me and not terrify me.

I was very fortunate to be able to represent an icon to many African Americans.