If people in general could be got into the woods, even for once, to hear the trees speak for themselves, all difficulties in the way of forest preservation would vanish.

I slept and I dreamed that life is all joy. I woke and I saw that life is all service. I served and I saw that service is joy.

What she was finding also was how one book led to another, doors kept opening wherever she turned and the days weren't long enough for the reading she wanted to do.

I learned that being a mother takes a lot of energy.

I've always loved [acting] and I've always wanted to [do it] from as far back as I can remember.

The exercise of an extraordinary gift is the supremest pleasure in life.

Iraq has lost 5 percent of its population, a number that in the U.S. would equal 14 million people.

The moon has set, and the Pleiades; it is midnight, and time passes, and I sleep alone.

Do you remember when we played in Spain in the Anglo-Italian Cup?

I firmly believe lyrics have to breathe and give the audience's ear a chance to understand what's going on. Particularly in the theater, where you have costume, story, acting, orchestra.

The labor of the alchemists, who were called artist in their day, is a befitting comparison for a deliberate change of style.