Ash on an old man's sleeve / Is all the ash the burnt roses leave, / Dust in the air suspended / Marks the place where a story ended.

It is never too late to be what you might have been.

Most of the trouble in the world is caused by people wanting to be important.

Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.

We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.

If we really want to pray we must first learn to listen, for in the silence of the heart God speaks.

I learn a great deal by merely observing you, and letting you talk as long as you please, and taking note of what you do not say.

Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?

Finding a way to live the simple life is one of life's supreme complications.

April is the cruelest month, breeding lilacs out of the dead land, mixing memory and desire, stirring dull roots with spring rain.

The journey, Not the destination matters.

It's called optimism — but I’m losing the hang of it fast.

I go about looking at horses and cattle. They eat grass make love work when they have to bear their young. I am sick with envy of them.

I have never been called too pretty for anything. That would be a problem I could get used to.

In documentary you sometimes see the tyranny of the linear, but what I've noticed in the last ten years in narrative film is the tyranny of the non-linear.

What's life if you're not enjoying it?

What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others.

She comes from the school of getting it out of your system, whereas he comes from the school of stewing over it.

Be still my tongue, for i know not what to say; My life is lived in darkness and here i will remain.

I have had nothing to do in any way, shape or form with the mailing of these anthrax letters, and it is extremely wrong for anyone to contend or suggest that I have.

Our own opinion of ourselves should be lower than that formed by others, for we have a better chance at our imperfections.