Flowers preach to us if we will hear.

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.

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

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.

The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart and head and hands, and then work outward from there.

And whose rules will choose to you follow? God's? Or man's? You say you want to break the outmoded patterns and crate a new model? Then do it. That is part of your destiny, boy.

We came with nothing into the world. And certainly, we will take nothing out of it, when our spirit departs.

There’s this human capacity for joy and endurance, even when things are at their worst. A joy that occurs not despite our suffering, but within it.

We criticize and separate ourselves from the process. We've got to jump right in there with both feet.

I just didn't know what the heck I wanted to do with my life, so I drove out to California and got really lucky.

The difference between success and failure isn't the absence of fear but the determination to pursue your heart's desires no matter how scared you are.

Dance involves physicality, it involves spirituality and even brains.

I love Scotland. Edinburgh is a beautiful city and has a wonderful tradition of supporting the arts.

A specialist is a barbarian whose ignorance is not well-rounded.