As moonlight gently fills your room, your dreams begin to sprout, then bloom.

There are people who come into our lives as welcome as a cool breeze in summer- and last about as long.

Experience is the oracle of truth; and where its responses are unequivocal, they ought to be conclusive and sacred.

I cannot say what I think is right about Music. I only know the rightness of it.

People who are different from other people are always called peculiar,' said Anne.

Genius points the way, talent takes it.

And how could I believe that Australian wine was automatically inferior to wine sourced from other regions on the planet when I had never drunk anything but liquid nitrogen?

You can squint and see something else, or something will come forward in the paint. You'll always see something else.

Time is a beast who has the immense patience to swallow everything.

Not just part of us becomes a teacher. It engages the whole self - the woman or man, wife or husband, mother or father, the lover, scholar or artist in you as well as the teacher earning money.

Any relationship I ever have will have to be hidden, or else it will be destroyed before it even starts.