If you want to heal Heal othersAnd smile or weepAt this happy reversal of fate

When someone that you love dies..it's like fireworks suddenly burning out in the sky and everything going black.

People aim for the stars, and they end up like goldfish in a bowl. I wonder if it wouldn't be simpler just to teach children right from the start that life is absurd.

There's so much humanity in a love of trees, so much nostalgia for our first sense of wonder, so much power in just feeling our own insignificance when we are surrounded by nature.

Personally I think that grammar is a way to attain beauty.

That's what the future is for: to build the present, with real plans, made by living people.

I thought: pity the poor in spirit who know neither the enchantment nor the beauty of language.

We think we can make honey without sharing in the fate of bees, but we are in truth nothing but poor bees, destined to accomplish our task and then die.

With the exception of love, friendship and the beauty of Art, I don't see much else that can nurture human life.

The real ordeal is not leaving those you love but learning to live without those who don't love you.

When tea becomes ritual, it takes place at the heart of our ability to see greatness in small things.

That is why I often find myself at such cross-purposes with the modern world: I have been a converted Pagan living among apostate Puritans.

Holding your brain hostage against your own stupidity - that was how to get stuff done.

Acting was something I wanted to work at and put the time into.

It's the stupidest thing of all time, going on tour. It deteriorates the soul, but it's fun.

Persecution to persons in a high rank stands them in the stead of eminent virtue.

The test of love is that it gives even when there is no expectation of a return.

Rich people should consider that they are only trustees for what they posses, and should show their wealth to be more in doing good than merely in having it.

When life is difficult, God wants us to have a faith that trusts and waits.

I want to be the best role model I can be for my family.

It is because the old have forgotten life that they preach wisdom.