If children haven't been read to, they don't love books. They need to love books, for books are the basis of literature, composition, history, world events, vocabulary, and everything else.

We foolish mortals sometimes live through years not realizing how short life is, and that TODAY is your life.

People throw away what they could have by insisting on perfection, which they cannot have, and looking for it where they will never find it

Encouraged, we recognise the importance of living artistically, aesthetically and creatively as creative creatures of the creator.

The most precious thing a human being has to give is time. There is so very little of it, after all, in a life.

The thing about real life is that important events don't announce themselves... Usually something that is going to change your whole life is a memory before you can stop and be impressed about it.

It makes sense that there is no sense without God.

In a fallen world, if you demand perfection or nothing, you will always get nothing.

It is not a waste to write beautiful prose or poetry for one person's eyes alone!

When people insist on perfection or nothing, they get nothing.

Oh how Shakespeare would have loved cinema!

The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.

An afro is a poor man’s haircut.

I'm a Scandinavian Midwest girl who doesn't always know what's going on in herself emotionally, which is why I make music in order to figure it out.

Always my collections are made of different influences.

A world in everlasting conflict between the new idea and the old allegiances, new arts and new inventions against the old establishment.

It is true if you believe it to be true.

There's just this for consolation: an hour here or there when our lives seem, against all odds and expectations, to burst open and give us everything we've ever imagined.

Death is only a grim porter to let us into a stately palace.

All deep things are song. It seems somehow the very central essence of us, song; as if all the rest were but wrappages and hulls!