Experience shows us Wealth unchaperoned by Virtue is never an innocuous neighbor.

You may forget but let me tell you this: someone in some future time will think of us

Beauty endures only for as long as it can be seen; goodness, beautiful today, will remain so tomorrow.

What cannot be said will be wept.

Someone, I tell you, in another time will remember us

Whatever one loves most is beautiful.

Once again love drives me on, that loosener of limbs, bittersweet creature against which nothing can be done.

Although only breath, words which I command are immortal.

Stand and face me, my love,and scatter the grace in your eyes.

All the while, believe me, I prayed our night would last twice as long.

Love shook my heart/ Like the wind on the mountain/ Troubling the oak-trees

However anxious one is to reach one’s goal, one can excuse delays on the route when these are caused by ovations.

I'm always aware of the camera and it feels like that's the audience.

Over the years I have discovered that ideas come through an intense desire for them; continually desiring, the mind becomes a watchtower on the lookout for incidents that may excite the imagination.

Right now, the old guys, the old farts, if you will, are still running the show, and the women haven't gotten their place yet at all.

Flying is awful, there's nothing to do when you're up in the air. I bloat up, my skin gets dry, and when we hit turbulence, I'm terrified.

Anybody can make hood music or club records, that's not hard. But can you make music that touch people's souls. That's what I was out to do.

It never rains in Manchester, but it pours

Land is an emotional subject with a farmer in India because it is his only means of income.

My mother was an English teacher before she became a full-time mom, and a huge proponent of reading, so she made sure I was an early and vigorous reader.

Believe me, I wish this song was yours instead of mine.