I have found, beauty is the illumination of the mind.

Here's what I've learned - people will hurt you, but you don't have to respond: Not every mean comment or cruel act deserves to be noticed.

December's wintery breath is already clouding the pond, frosting the pane, obscuring summer's memory.

Freshly cut Christmas trees smelling of stars and snow and pine resin - inhale deeply and fill your soul with wintry night.

The winter is kind and leaves red berries on the boughs for hungry sparrows.

I hear the sounds of melting snow outside my window every night and with the first faint scent of spring, I remember life exists

Dark furrow lines grid the snow, punctuated by orange abacus beads of pumpkins - now the crows own the field.

You think so logically... like a hawk soaring - I feel so chaotically... like a kite without a tail plummeting to earth.

I love it when the dark bottle of night spills out, and the Moon writes in chalk about us.

It must be hard when you are a beautiful woman and no one will look at your soul.

Sunday evenings are heavier than clouds with rain, darker too and often interminable.

Lincoln told a family friend that his father taught him to work, but never learned him to love it.

Sure, scars can be painfull to look at, reminding you where you've been, but they also remind you of how far you've come.

The ugliest of trades have their moments of pleasure. Now if I were a grave-digger or even a hangman there are some people I could work for with a great deal of enjoyment.

If you're going to be at a job environment, you should love it. You shouldn't do it just for money. You should do it because you love it. And the money comes naturally.

One mind awake can become stronger than a thousand zombies sleepwalking in a dying civilization.

I've never formally trained in acting, so I'm very instinctual and visceral with decisions.

The ethical manifold, conceived of as unified, furnishes, or rather is, the ideal of the whole.

I feel Amazon is really bringing films into the future. So for me it was the best of both worlds.

Every photograph is a certificate of presence.

There are in every age new errors to be rectified and new prejudices to be opposed.