I am athirst for God, the living God.

O fateful flower beside the rill- The Daffodil, the daffodil!

A healthful hunger for a great idea is the beauty and blessedness of life.

When sparrows build and the leaves break forth My old sorrow wakes and cries.

Youth! youth! how buoyant are thy hopes! they turn, like marigolds, toward the sunny side.

I have lived to thank God that all my prayers have not been answered.

Crowds of bees are giddy with clover Crowds of grasshoppers skip at our feet, Crowds of larks at their matins hang over, Thanking the Lord for a life so sweet.

Her face betokened all things dear and good, The light of somewhat yet to come was there Asleep, and waiting for the opening day, When childish thoughts, like flowers would drift away.

And bitter waxed the fray; Brother with brother spake no word When they met in the way.

Man is the miracle in nature. God Is the One Miracle to man.

The moon looks upon many night flowers; the night flowers see but one moon.

Maybe if we focused on being light & less on the dark, we might actually see things change.

Everything happens for a reason, we just don't get the reason with the thing

If I could somehow know the future, then now should not be like this time.

When you cease to love, you cease to exist.

I've been in this business my whole life. I'm pretty bulletproof as far as being hurt.

The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries.

We lack rituals in this modern world.

You don't write for success. That takes part of your attention away from the writing. If you're really doing it, that's all you're doing: writing.

You can't really compare hells. But I suppose the hell of being strung out on another person's addictive behavior is its own special thing.

I had very modest expectations when I first moved to New York. I didn't even expect to get a record deal.