I am the self-consumer of my woes.

If life had a second edition, how I would correct the proofs.

Language has not the power to speak what love indites: The soul lies buried in the ink that writes.

I found the poems in the fields And only wrote them down

Love lives with Nature, not with lust. Go find her in the flowers.

The best way to avoid a bad action is by doing a good one, for there is no difficulty in the world like that of trying to do nothing.

The present is the funeral of the past, And man the living sepulchre of life.

I ne'er was struck before that hour with love so sudden and so sweet. Her face it bloomed like a sweet flower and stole my heart away complete

For Nature is love, and finds haunts for true love, Where nothing can hear or intrude; It hides from the eagle and joins with the dove, In beautiful green solitude.

Burning hot is the ground, liquid gold is the air; Whoever looks round sees Eternity there.

I long for scenes where man has never trod;... There to abide with my Creator, God.

Contentment is not a power that may be exercised naturally, but a science to be acquired gradually.

it crossed Farren's mind that although death seemed big, life was even bigger

One thing that somebody told me is that leadership is a lonely role - some people can do it, and some people can't.

Fear knows no borders, and the terminology of hate has seeped into every aspect of life.

Since my adaptation of Ian McEwan's 'Atonement,' I get sent a lot of novels that people think will work as movies. So every now and then I make a point of sitting down and reading a couple of them.

For the benefit of those of you who have real jobs and are not involved in the news business, I should first explain that . . .

Not to win is guttering.

My mandate...is to promote the protection, rights and welfare of children.

The Same, the Same: friend and foe are of one stuff; the ploughman, the plough, and the furrow, are of one stuff; and the stuff is such, and so much, that the variations of form are unimportant.

I want get people to think about sensory based of thinking.