Darkness now rose, as daylight sunk, and brought in low'ring Night her shadowy offspring.

Athens, the eye of Greece, mother of arts And eloquence.

The end of all learning is to know God, and out of that knowledge to love and imitate Him.

He who reigns within himself and rules passions, desires, and fears is more than a king.

He who destroys a good book kills reason itself.

Have hung My dank and dropping weeds To the stern god of sea.

O dark, dark, dark, amid the blaze of noon, Irrecoverably dark, total eclipse Without all hope of day!

Sabrina fair, Listen where thou art sitting Under the glassy, cool, translucent wave, In twisted braids of lilies knitting The loose train of thy amber-dropping hair.

There is nothing that making men rich and strong but that which they carry inside of them. True wealth is of the heart, not of the hand.

Love Virtue, she alone is free, She can teach ye how to climb Higher than the sphery chime; Or, if Virtue feeble were, Heav'n itself would stoop to her.

I sat me down to watch upon a bank With ivy canopied and interwove With flaunting honeysuckle.

The light of love is life.

Animals are good human beings and human beings are bad animals

The global economy is a doomsday machine that must be stopped and reprogrammed.

I always knew that I'd probably do something in the arts.

Should not the giver be thankful that the receiver received? Is not giving a need? Is not receiving, mercy?

I haven't been in a job situation in which I was competing with other women. As a writer, you're more likely to be treated as an individual.

I find it really hard to throw myself into something artistically where I'm making up a whole character and finding something for that character to do.

Los Angeles is a very special city. It's a great ethnic mix, a great cultural mix.

I had long since given up trying to extract from a woman as it were the square root of her unknown quantity, the mystery of which a mere introduction was generally enough to dispel.

It's easier to create money than to spend it.