Could I love less, I should be happier now.

The death-bed of a day, how beautiful!

What are ye orbs? The words of God? the Scriptures of the skies?

There is no surer mark of the absence of the highest moral and intellectual qualities than a cold reception of excellence.

For ivy climbs the crumbling hall To decorate decay.

Respect is what we owe; love, what we give.

Surely the stars are images of love.

Art is a man's nature; nature is God's art.

Man is a military animal, glories in gunpowder, and loves parade.

Death, thou art infinite; it is life is little.

Let each man think himself an act of God, His mind a thought, his life a breath of God; And let each try, by great thoughts and good deeds, To show the most of Heaven he hath in him.

Don’t underestimate the result of a right and positive anger.

I am (thank God!) constitutionally superior to reason.

We clean our plates, yet we’re still famished—starving for something other than food.

One of my biggest pet peeves is well-dressed designers. If you spend that much time thinking about your own clothes, you're not spending enough time thinking about what you're designing.

I think the feature reporter often walks a very thin line between a truly human story and one that slops over into mushiness or sentimentality.

If God exists, how can we lay claim to freedom, since He is its beginning and its end?

So shines a good deed... in a weary world.

Somewhere, someone isn’t impressed by your looks. Not all men jump through the hoops of your fire. You’re unbelievably boring to more people than you’ll ever know.

Please tell me we don't grow up and turn into the adults that drive us crazy.

I'm really grateful for how my career has unfolded.