Hope gives the heart wings; the soul, an anchor.

Actions speak louder than words, but words spur actions.

Passion pursues; love surrenders.

A blessed hope, a blessed life.

When all you have is the memory of a thing, all you can think about is how the thing is gone.

I grimace, thinking someone should come up with a new phrase for 'I left the ocean without a kiwi-sized chunk of my lower-left butt cheek' to replace the rather nebulous term 'exploratory bite.

We don't measure the quality of our other relationships by how well the other person turns out, for instance whether my husband is a better person after 10 years than he was when I first met him.

Form is any aspect of a poem that encourages it to stay whole and not drift off into chaos.

For the wise old man was universally beloved, and ministered so beautifully to his flock that many of them thanked him all their lives for the help given to both hearts and souls.

Nature is seldom in the wrong, custom always.

I am inspired by so much. I am inspired by women, of course - beautiful women. I am also inspired by not so beautiful things in the world.

Disney has a bible for their characters, so that people who draw Disney characters have to make them look correct.

When I was very small, maybe 8 years old, we had a big radio that stood on four legs, and it had a cross piece underneath it, and I used to take a pillow and crawl under the radio.