Humility, that low, sweet root, from which all heavenly virtues shoot.

We need people in our lives with whom we can be as open as possible. To have real conversations with people may seem like such a simple, obvious suggestion, but it involves courage and risk.

A friendship that like love is warm; A love like friendship, steady.

The ordinary acts we practice every day at home are of more importance to the soul than their simplicity might suggest.

The heart that has truly loved never forgets, But as truly loves on to the close.

You may break, you may shatter the vase, if you will, But the scent of the roses will hang round it still.

Finding the right work is like discovering your own soul in the world.

It is precisely because we resist the darkness in ourselves that we miss the depths of the loveliness, beauty, brilliance, creativity, and joy that lie at our core.

Here bring your wounded hearts, here tell your anguish; Earth has no sorrow that Heaven cannot heal.

It may help us, in those times of trouble, to remember that love is not only about relationship, it is also an affair of the soul.

Go where we may, rest where we will, Eternal London haunts us still.

I’ve come to understand that life is a constant letting go.

In many ways, the title American is an oxymoron because one may look it on the outside but not feel it on the inside.

In the movies, the writer is just the servant, the employee.

Growing up, I didn't know my parents were famous. I just thought they knew everybody. Everyone was always saying, 'Hi, Billy,' 'Hi, Christie.' I thought they were just popular.

The guitar is the easiest instrument to play and the hardest to play well.

Some of Eminem's rap songs kind of have the teenage love songs like the fifties love songs. It's kind of like domestic drama set to music. He is really good storyteller.

You don't build yourself up by putting someone else down.

Poetry is ordinary language raised to the Nth power.

You see, among men who are honored with the common appellation ogentleman, many contradictions to that character.

It was a marriage of convenience, as my father had a blister on his big toe and couldn't travel far to find a girl.