Be the green grass above me, with showers and dewdrops wet; and if thou wilt, remember, and if thou wilt, forget.

In the bleak midwinter Frosty wind made moan, Earth stood hard as iron, Water like a stone; Snow had fallen, Snow on snow, Snow on snow, In the bleak midwinter, Long ago.

Can anything be sadder than work left unfinished? Yes, work never begun.

Hurt no living thing: Ladybird, nor butterfly, Nor moth with dusty wing.

Love came down at Christmas, Love all lovely, Love Divine; Love was born at Christmas; Star and angels gave the sign.

We must not look at goblin men, We must not buy their fruits: Who knows upon what soil they fed Their hungry thirsty roots?

My heart is like a singing bird Whose nest is in a water'd shoot; My heart is like an apple-tree Whose boughs are bent with thick-set fruit.

Choose love not in the shallows but in the deep.

What is the beginning? Love. What is the course. Love still. What the goal. The goal is love.

Silence is more musical than any song.

What are heavy? sea-sand and sorrow. What are brief? today and tomorrow. What are frail? spring blossoms and youth. What are deep? the ocean and truth.

...don’t judge your future based on others’ mistakes.

Some people see the cup as half empty. Some people see the cup as half full. I see the cup as too large.

Communism has served us ill in having us swap a living brotherhood for what looks to have the features of the coldest of all chill abstractions.

I'll be back always sounded a little girly to me.

We love comfort, and people make a lot of money selling us comfort, but I would challenge the notion that comfort is usually good for us.

Alas! When duty grows thy law, enjoyment fades away.

There are infinitely many variations of the initial situation and therefore no doubt indefinitely many theorems of moral geometry.

Hollywood desires money but they could not stand the political content.

They have a few drinks, and maybe the prawn sandwiches, and they don't realise what's going on out on the pitch.

When a woman starts to disentangle herself from patriarchy, ultimately she is abandoned to her own self.