He lies like a hedgehog rolled up the wrong way, Tormenting himself with his prickles.

With fingers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and red, A woman sat in unwomanly rags, Plying her needle and thread.

No shade, no shine, no butterflies, no bees, No fruits, no flowers, no leaves, no birds - November!

Dear bells! how sweet the sound of village bells When on the undulating air they swim!

My tears must stop, for every drop Hinders needle and thread.

Coquetry is the champagne of love.

There's a double beauty whenever a swan Swims on a lake with her double thereon.

Some minds improve by travel, others, rather, resemble copper wire, or brass, which get the narrower by going farther.

I saw old Autumn in the misty morn stand shadowless like silence, listening to silence.

I remember, I remember, The house where I was born, The little window where the sun Came peeping in at morn.

Gold! gold! gold! gold! Bright and yellow, hard and cold!

You can't get reconciliation between the powerful and powerless unless you disempower the powerful.

God’s love supersedes all religions and it is the core of all religions.

It’s illegal to yell ‘Fire!’ in a crowded theater, right?” “It is.” “Well, I’ve whispered ‘Racism’ in a post-racial world.

I want to be a real artist to consumers. I want to be the real thing for them.

(About parenting:) ... all that tedium, broken up by little spurts of high drama.

I said [Hillary Clinton] doesn't have the stamina. And I don't believe she does have the stamina.

Whatever beauty we behold, the more it is distant, serene, and cold, the purer and more durable it is. It is better to warm ourselves with ice than with fire.

Contemplating the task ahead would not make it easier or the water warmer.

We must abolish nuclear weapons, or they will abolish us.

The currents rage so deep upon us, this is the age of video violence.